Origins of MEVC

In 2017, we formed Making Every Vote Count (MEVC) when it had become inescapably apparent that the country we love was speeding down a dangerous path that deviated from its core values. A few months before, the country had elected its fifth president ever to have earned fewer votes nationwide than his opponent, the second time for that to happen since the turn of the century. MEVC’s founders understood that this serious defect in the country’s presidential election system was significantly and increasingly damaging the country. Each of MEVC’s board members had his or her own reason for tackling this broken system.

The bedrock commonality for all MEVC’s directors is that the republic’s current system for electing its presidents is wrong—politically, practically, and morally. They further believe that the country can fix itself as it has done many times over history—when it switched to a popular vote system for electing U.S. Senators, when it atoned for its bigotry and granted racial minorities and women the right to vote, and in many other examples of this great country’s ability to endlessly progress, but not without setbacks, and build a more perfect union.