Campaign Begins To Empower The Popular Vote

LANSING (WWJ) - The campaign is on in Michigan and across the country to change the way we elect the President of the United States.

WWJ Newsradio 950 spoke with Tom Golisano, with National Popular Vote, a group pushing to make sure that the candidate elected President gets the most votes.

"What we're attempting to do is to have, always, the candidate with the most votes nationwide wins. To make this happen, all we need is 51 percent of the Electoral vote states to have their legislatures and their governors make that decision. We already have 15 percent of the states required,"  Golisano said.

Golisano said four times in our nation's history, the candidate elected President received fewer votes than his opponent. The most recent case was the disputed 2000 election, where Democrat Al Gore actually got more votes than Republican George W. Bush. But Bush got more Electoral votes.

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