WHB/2/10
Sponsored by Lily Segars, Esther Pace, Sawyer Warren of West High School
This legislation was filed in the Correction category
Presented as part of the YIG Volunteer 2024 conference
| 1 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE TENNESSEE YMCA YOUTH IN GOVERNMENT |
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| 3 | Section 1: Terms in this act will be defined as follows |
| 4 | Congressional District Method: The winner of each district is awarded one electoral vote, and the |
| 5 | winner of the state-wide vote is then awarded the state’s remaining two electoral votes. |
| 6 | Electoral Congress: A group selected by the states to elect the president and the vice-president, in |
| 7 | which each state's number of electors is equal to the number of its senators and representatives in |
| 8 | Congress. |
| 9 | Elector: A member of the Electoral Congress |
| 10 | Winner-take-all system: The candidate who receives plurality of popular vote in a given state |
| 11 | receives all of that states electoral votes |
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| 13 | Section 2: Tennessee uses the winner-takes-all voting system, which can lead to the winner of the |
| 14 | popular vote not winning the election. This bill will amend their process to be more representative |
| 15 | of a democracy. |
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| 17 | Section 3: Electors votes in Tennessee will allocate two electoral votes to the state popular vote |
| 18 | winner, and then one electoral vote to the popular vote winner in each congressional district |
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| 20 | Section 4: This Act would require no government funding. |
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| 22 | Section 5: All laws Or parts of laws in conflict with this are hereby repealed. |
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| 24 | Section 6: This Act shall take effect in the voting process of the 2028 election. |
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