![]() ![]() “That person should win despite winning in Michigan,” she said. Feys added that should a candidate be elected in Michigan, that is not the leading vote getter nationwide, she would have no issue distributing Michigan’s electoral vote to them. She said it is the more democratic way of electing a candidate and each vote counts. Not Michigan.”ĭoris Feys, president of the League of Women Voters of Northeast Michigan, said the League supports the state entering the compact and moving toward the president being decided by the popular vote. “If someone wants votes, that is where they are going to go. “Las Angeles County, in California, has more people in that one county than we have in our entire state,” he said. He said most will focus on larger states with huge populations, instead of states that have more rural territories, like Northeast Michigan. ![]() Stillings said if Michigan’s leaders choose to transition to a popular vote, it would also reduce the amount of visits presidential candidates make to the state to campaign. It is just another attempt to tear down the pillars of our democracy and I will not support any action to do so.” “I’m not for this at all and I think our electoral votes should be distributed as they are now,” he said. State Representative for Northeast Michigan Cam Cavitt, a Republican from Cheboygan, said the current vote distribution system is still the best practice and he intends to vote no on any legislation that tries to change it.Ĭavitt will be part of the panel that will present on Thursday. In fact, the National Popular Vote plan would make every vote in every state politically relevant in every presidential election. It says the popular vote method would make a voter in each of the medium and small non-battleground states as important as a voter in battleground states such as New Hampshire. On its website, it claims the current state-by-state winner-take-all system shifts power from voters in the small and medium-sized states to voters in a handful of big states that happen to be closely divided battleground states in presidential elections. The National Popular Vote group is a 501(c)(4) non-profit corporation that supports doing away with the traditional electoral college voting system. ![]() “We need people to know what is going on and to call their representatives and tell them they do not support this,” Stillings said. He said events like the one in Alpena are happening all over the state because it is important to educate people on how important the issue is. Stillings said the public forum is free to the public and there will be a question-and-answer session after the panel discussion. We don’t have the clout of a New York, California, and it is possible Michigan could elect a candidate it liked, but be forced to give the electoral votes to a candidate that didn’t even win here.” “This is the key thing that the other side doesn’t want people to understand. “We would be giving up control of our electoral college and that would be a disservice to the people of Michigan and put them at a disadvantage,” Stillings said. He said medium and small states will have little impact on elections if all of their electoral votes go to the winner of other states, no matter the outcome in those states. He said during presidential elections, populous states, like New York and California, will be able to flex their political muscles more because of how many voters each has. Organizer Tom Stillings said it is important people know the ramifications of switching to the popular vote. in the Granholm Theater at Alpena Community College, elected officials and other supporters of keeping the current electoral vote practice will host a public forum to explain what the possible ramifications could be if Michigan changes the way its electoral votes are awarded. ![]()
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