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On Friday, May 16th, NC Senate Bill 954 passed and was sent to the NC House Committee on Election Law and Campaign Finance Reform.

Now, it's up to us to contact our representatives, Speaker Hackney and the members of the House Committee to kill it. If this bill passes the House and is signed by the governor, North Carolina would be added to the list of states, moving toward the popular vote, rather than the electoral college.

Here's why this is a bad deal for NC voters: A presidential candidate could lose North Carolina by a wide margin but receive all 15 of our state's electoral votes. The current electoral college process ensures that voters in all 50 states are fairly represented in presidential elections.

Do we really want New York and California voters to pick our next president?

Please contact your representative in the NC House and tell him/her to oppose the popular vote. To find out who represents you in the NC House, use the "Who Represents Me?" section of: http://www.ncleg.net/

Since 2000, a group of folks have worked to undermine the Electoral College. Instead of proposing a constitutional amendment, they devised a plan to undercut America’s constitutional system. Once states with a majority of electoral votes (Article V of the Constitution requires an amendment to be ratified by of 3/4s of the states) to join the National Popular Vote Compact, these states will give their electoral votes to the candidate with the most votes nationally.

This idea is wrong for North Carolina and America.

North Carolina will be giving away our electoral votes. Supporters argue that this will make North Carolina more important. In reality, campaigns have limited resources and will focus their energies where they can have the biggest impact. Campaigns will focus only on getting the votes of America's population centers in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, and Philadelphia.

Also, the winning candidate is not required to obtain a majority of the vote (possibly because no Democrat has won a majority of the national vote since 1976?). Thus, a third party candidate could spend millions in America's population centers and win North Carolina's votes with as little as 33.1% of the vote (and much less in North Carolina).

This hurts America by undercutting the amendment process for altering the legal contract on which our nation is based.

Finally, it is clear why this measure has only has Democratic sponsors. No Democratic presidential candidate has won North Carolina since 1976. Instead of providing candidates who will earn the support of North Carolina's voters (as Jack Kennedy and Harry Truman did in earlier times), these Democrats have decided that give those able to win by a big enough margin in America's population centers deserve North Carolina’s votes, and not the candidate chosen by North Carolina’s votes. This is wrong.