Please write your Delaware Senators about Wednesday Senate committee vote on fixing Electoral College

Please remind your Delaware Senators to support the National Popular Vote when it comes up in a Senate Committee this week.

Your action NOW can make the difference because a Delaware Senate Committee will soon be considering legislation to reform the Electoral College.

Under the National Popular Vote bill, the presidential candidate who gets the most popular votes in all 50 states and DC will become President.

Please take a moment to e-mail your Delaware Senators to tell them to support the National Popular Vote bill (HB 55).

Presidential campaigns routinely ignore Delaware because electoral votes are awarded to the candidate who gets the most popular votes within each separate state (the so-called "winner-take-all" rule). The result is that candidates ignore states where they are comfortably ahead or hopelessly behind. In 2008, two-thirds of the campaign events and money went into six closely divided "battleground" states. 98% went to just 15 states, not including Delaware. Thus, Delaware voters (and voters in 34 other reliably Democratic or reliably Republican states) are mere spectators to presidential elections.

Delaware is not ignored because it is small, but because it is not a closely divided battleground state. The only small battleground state (New Hampshire) received 12 of the 300 post-convention campaign events in 2008. In contrast, there were no visits to Delaware, Alaska, Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Vermont, Rhode Island, the District of Columbia, or Hawaii. They were ignored because they are heavily Democratic or heavily Republican.

Under a national popular vote, every voter in every state would matter in every presidential election. A vote in Delaware would matter as much as a vote in a battleground state such as New Hampshire.

The states have the constitutional authority to change the method of awarding electoral votes and thereby establish a national popular vote for President. The National Popular Vote bill has already been enacted into law by New Jersey, Maryland, Vermont, Illinois, Washington state, California, Massachusetts, the District of Columbia, and Hawaii. The bill has also been approved by at least one legislative house in an additional 12 states, including the Delaware House of Representatives in 2009 and 2011.

If you believe that a vote cast in Delaware should count as much as a vote cast in a battleground state, please take a moment to e-mail your Delaware Senators to tell them to support the National Popular Vote bill.

The National Popular Vote bill would mean that the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC) would become President. The current system has elected a second-place candidate in 4 of 56 presidential elections.

The National Popular Vote bill is endorsed by the League of Women Voters, Common Cause, FairVote, Sierra Club, the Brennan Center for Justice, NAACP, National Black Caucus of State Legislators, ACLU, the National Latino Congreso, Asian American Action Fund, DEMOS, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, Public Citizen, U.S. PIRG, and Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund.

The bill has been endorsed by newspapers such as the Hartford Courant, New York Times, Chicago Sun-Times, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Boston Globe, Sacramento Bee, and many more.

As the Sarasota Florida Herald Tribune said: "The most compelling and practical alternative is promoted by a bipartisan group called National Popular Vote. The NPV proposal calls for legislatures to pass bills committing their state's electoral votes to the candidate who receives the most popular votes nationwide; the bill would take effect only when enacted by states that together have enough electoral votes to elect a president."

Learn more at www.NationalPopularVote.com.

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