Set for next Monday is a virtual presentation on the National Popular Vote movement to be hosted by the League of Women Voters of Berrien and Cass Counties. League President Faith Schoon tells us the popular vote movement started in 2006 and is lobbying states to join the National Popular Vote compact. It calls on states to award all of their electoral votes to the presidential candidate who gets the most votes nationally. Schoon says this movement has been growing.
“I think that we have seen, and at least for sure in 2016, that the voters, what they really wanted, they did not get,” Schoon said.
Schoon says National Popular Vote Grassroots Director Eileen Reavey will speak to the league about the movement’s efforts.
“I think this is at least one of the first times I have heard of this being done in the state of Michigan, and it’s the fist time I’ve personally heard about the National popular Vote movement.”
National Popular Vote says it believes Michigan this year could vote to join the National Popular Vote compact. The webinar will be next Monday at 7 p.m. You can register online.
