Whereas the Founders of the Nation established the electoral college in an era of limited nationwide communication and information sharing; Whereas the electoral college is premised on an antiquated theory that citizens will have a better chance of knowing about electors from their home States than about Presidential candidates from out of State; Whereas the development of mass media and the Internet has made information about Presidential candidates easily accessible to United States citizens across the country and around the world; Whereas citizens now have a far better chance of knowing about out-of-State Presidential candidates than about Presidential electors from their home State; Whereas Thomas Jefferson wrote, I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. ; Whereas since the Nation’s founding, United States citizens have amended the Constitution to expand the opportunity for citizens to directly elect their elected leaders; Whereas the 15th Amendment guarantees the right of all citizens to vote regardless of race; Whereas the 19th Amendment guarantees the right of all citizens to vote regardless of gender; Whereas the 26th Amendment guarantees the right of all citizens 18 years of age and older to vote regardless of age; Whereas the 17th Amendment establishes both a precedent and a preference for the direct election of citizens’ elected representatives; and Whereas the electoral college has become an anachronism: Now, therefore, be it