Editing Common Cause (section)

==== National popular vote ====
Common Cause is in favor of establishing a national [[Direct election|popular vote]] for presidential elections to replace the current [[United States electoral college|electoral college]] system.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Richie|first1=Rob|title=National Popular Vote: A Win for Our Democracy in Massachusetts|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-richie/national-popular-vote-a-w_b_672594.html|access-date=7 December 2015|work=HuffPost|date=August 5, 2010}}</ref> Following the November 2016 U.S. presidential election, Common Cause called for the [[National Popular Vote Interstate Compact|National Popular Vote Compact]] to counteract what it called the "anti-democratic" outcome in that election.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.commoncause.org/take-action/act/fix-the-broken-electoral-college-national-popular-vote.html|title=Fix the broken Electoral College - It's time for National Popular Vote|website=Common Cause|access-date=2017-03-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170308045100/http://www.commoncause.org/take-action/act/fix-the-broken-electoral-college-national-popular-vote.html|archive-date=2017-03-08|url-status=dead}}</ref>