Dear Editor,

Winston Churchill once said, “you can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.” We’ve tried electing our president a certain way and it doesn’t work very well. Let’s do the right thing and support Proposition 113, the National Popular Vote.

The National Popular Vote will make sure every voter matters and every vote for president counts. With our current presidential election, millions of Americans (and Coloradans) have their presidential votes tossed aside if they are not in the majority of their state. On top of that, the candidate who comes in second place sometimes wins. We saw that up close in 2016; it happened four times before that too. This isn’t the right way to run our government. 

In addition, the President is our most powerful elected official and makes powerful lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court. A person with that level of power should be elected by the majority of voters. The National Popular Vote will make sure the candidate who wins the majority of votes wins the election every time.

Vote YES on Proposition 113 if you agree one person should always equal one vote and the presidential candidate who earns the most votes should win the election. 

Shelby Bates
Boulder