One Person One Vote, Abolish The Electoral College

We the undersigned do hereby petition our Congressional representatives in the House and Senate to abolish the electoral college. We recognize that this will take a concerted effort, as it deals directly with amending our Constitution, but we urge Congress to take on this important task on behalf of the American people.

The electoral college is an archaic system that has been historically rife for corruption, with votes being exchanged behind closed doors for political favor, in direct contradiction to the expressed will of the people. The American people assume that the electoral college will cast it's vote in accordance with their expressed will via the popular vote, but on too many occasions this has not happened.

The result is a growing sense of disenfranchisement among American citizens, who feel their vote is not important, because the electoral college will arbitrarily choose the president regardless of the popular vote. This harms not only our right to self determination but has become a barrier against active participation in our government to many Americans by incurring in them a sense of having no real voice in their democratic government, thereby discouraging them from taking an active part in self governance as envisioned by our founding fathers.

We the undersigned therefore express our desire to see the abolition of this outdated system, with full respect accorded to one person, one vote, as exists in other democracies around the globe. Other nations should not be the ones leading the way in recognizing the right of the people to determine their own course. The United States of America should be leading the way, not giving a select few the awesome power to determine the course of the many in potentially direct opposition to the expressed will of the people in the popular vote. Too often this power has been abused, and it most assuredly will be again sometime in the future.

This is an unacceptable situation for those of us who cherish our right to vote, and we seek redress to remove this obstacle to our right to determine our own path.