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Congress Member, Top Election Scholars Meet at the National Press Club To Discuss New Research That Exposes Broken Presidential Election System Congress Member Raskin, Yale Law School Dean Gerken Introduce New Presidential Election System Reform Organization, Making Every Vote Count Making Every Vote Count Hosts Launch Event That Features New Research Showing Better than 33 percent Chance Future Presidents in Close Elections Will Not Win Popular Vote WHAT:

Senior member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Yale Law School Dean headline a launch event at the National Press Club that will showcase new research that shows the results in only five states has more influence than the outcome of elections in all the other 45 states when it comes to deciding the winner of modern Presidential elections. This new research was released by new national organization, Making Every Vote Count.

WHO:

The Honorable Jamie Raskin, U.S. House of Representatives, 8 Congressional District, Maryland

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Heather Gerken, Yale Law School (Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law) John Koza, National Popular Vote (Chairman) Lead author, Every Vote Equal: A State-Based Plan for Electing the President by National Popular Vote Samuel S.H. Wang, Princeton University (Professor of Molecular Biology) co-founder of the Princeton Election Consortium Andrew Claster, Claster Consulting (Head) Norm Ornstein, American Enterprise Institute (Resident Scholar) The Honorable Matthew Olsen, Harvard Law School (Lecturer), former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center WHERE:

National Press Club 529 14th St NW, Washington, DC 20004

WHEN:

Thursday, October 12, 8:30AM – 11:00AM EST (coffee available at 8:00AM)

CONTACT:

Jacob Canter +1 415 385 3716 [email protected]