ONE PERSON = ONE VOTE
The cases are filed, and the fight is on!
Two Blue States, Two Red States
CALIFORNIA
In 2016, 4,483,810 Californians voted for Donald Trump for President, but that translated into zero Electoral College votes.
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MASSACHUSETTS
In 2016, 1,083,069 Massachusettsans voted for Donald Trump for President, but that translated into zero Electoral College votes.
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TEXAS
In 2016, 3,868,291 Texans voted for Hillary Clinton for President, but that translated into zero Electoral College
votes.
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SOUTH CAROLINA
In 2016, 855,373 South Carolinians voted for Hillary Clinton for President, but that translated into zero Electoral College votes.
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Latest Equal Votes Content
Judge rejects challenge to Massachusetts’ winner-take-all election system
December 7, 2018
Associated Press
Donald Trump is no electoral phenom. He's more like Michael Dukakis than Ronald Reagan.
Jason Harrow
November 6, 2018
USA Today
In a democracy, all votes should count equally. In our democracy, when voting for the president, they do not.
Because of the winner-take-all allocation of electoral votes, if you don’t vote for the candidate who wins your state, your vote counts for nothing. That violates the Constitution’s “one person, one vote” principle. We plan to challenge this system in the courts. Join this fight for citizen equality.
We’re building a movement of Americans who demand more fair and equal elections.
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What is Equal Votes?
Equal Votes is a crowdfunded legal challenge to the winner-take-all allocation of Electoral College votes. Winner-take-all is not in the Constitution. We believe the system violates our amended Constitution. The Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment guarantees that all of us, and all of our votes, must be treated equally under the law. Winner-take-all breaks that guarantee. Over 52 million votes were ignored in the 2016 election because of winner-take-all.
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Who’s behind Equal Votes?
People like you, who want our elections to be truly democratic and equal. Your donations will help Equal Votes, a project of Equal Citizens — a non-profit organization founded by Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig, bring the lawsuits that can change our unfair system in time for the 2020 election.
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How will the lawsuit work?
We filed lawsuits in federal courts on behalf of real voters perpetually disenfranchised by the winner-take-all system. We have identified voters in four safe states who believe they have been denied representation in presidential elections for decades because of this system. The goal is to have the Supreme Court rule on winner-take-all in time for the 2020 presidential election.
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