This one is pretty much a no-brainer for most folks:

The National Popular Vote for President Amendment

Presidential Electors and the Electoral College is abolished, and the candidates for President and Vice-President with the greatest national vote total in the General Election shall be elected.

Originally, the Electors system was set up to achieve two things: to avoid election by the general population because the general population was generally uneducated nimb-bobs (or so thought the educated, upper-class businessmen and/or slave-owning nimb-bobs who designed and wrote the Constitution), and to deal with the logistics of operating elections over great distances with no means of communication faster than a horse.

Education is now provided and available to most citizens. While many citizens are still nimb-bobs, many of our representatives are, too, so this should no longer be a valid argument for lessened levels of democracy in our government, merely an argument for wider, cheaper, and better education. As for speed of communication, we usually know the outcome of every election within hours of the polls closing, if not before. Speed, too, is no longer an argument for lessened democracy.

Either we believe that most people can be educated and trained to be responsible citizens, capable of making reasonably wise and balanced choices, or we should give up on the dream of democracy and settle for living under kings, dictatorships, and the rule of those able to grab the most reins of power.

The current Electors system favors Presidential candidates who pour all their attention and favor into a handful of swing states, ignoring all the others. In a National Popular Vote election, those candidates would need to pay attention to ALL the States and Territories, because EVERY VOTE WOULD COUNT. Now, in too many states, it truly does NOT matter who you vote for in Presidential elections, as most states so heavily lean one way or the other that the outcome is pretty much pre-ordained. Without Electors, even though the candidate for one party almost always wins the “winner take all” Electors in a state, there’s still a huge chunk of voters that vote for the another party’s candidate, and a sizeable collection of “swing voters” who can be swayed. In a National Popular Vote election, those “losing voters” would still get counted and added together with numbers from other states.

In a true democracy, every vote counts equally.

-Everett