Two more states could add their voices to array of National Popular Vote plans to overturn Electoral College. From Ballot Access News:
Oregon Representative Alissa Keny-Guyer, a Democrat, will introduced the National Popular Vote Plan bill next year. Oregon is one of the few states with Democratic control of state government that has not yet passed the plan. See this story. Also, Ohio Representative David Leland will introduce the bill in his state next year. See this story. Leland is a Democrat and the Ohio legislature has a Republican majority.
From the Oregon article:
Representative Alissa Keny-Guyer (D-Portland) pledged last week to introduce legislation that would award Oregon’s electoral college votes to the winner of the national popular vote. The approach Keny-Guyer favors could have changed the results of the presidential race this year, where Hillary Clinton won 2 million more votes than Donald Trump, according to the latest tally.
“I’ll be introducing a bill to have Oregon vote for the National Popular Vote,” she posted last week on Facebook. “It’s way overdue that we overturn this archaic system that does NOT count every vote equally.”
From Ohio:
Republican Donald Trump may have won Ohio by 454,000 votes, but Hillary Clinton is leading in the popular vote by more than 2 million ballots. Rep. David Leland of Columbus, who’s the former head of the Ohio Democratic Party, says that shouldn’t happen.
“I’ll be sponsoring legislation in the General Assembly to promote the National Popular Vote Compact, so that the people in the United States, the majority of the people who vote for a presidential candidate are the ones that get listened to.”
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