Governor Jerry Brown recently signed a bill that would give all of California’s electoral votes to the Presidential candidate that wins the nationwide popular vote. Instead of the current winner-takes-all system, where the candidate who wins the most votes in the state gets the electoral votes.

The bill is sponsored by an organization called National Popular Vote. Their aim is to stop a repeat of the 2000 election in Florida between Al Gore and George W. Bush—the election when Gore won the popular vote but Bush won the electoral vote.

The new bill would ensure that the candidate with the popular vote would win the election. Supporters say that this bill will help make California a more significant state in Presidential elections.

“For too long, presidential candidates have ignored California and our issues while pandering exclusively to the battleground states,” the bill’s author, Assemblyman Jerry Hill (D-San Mateo) said in a written statement. “A national popular vote will force candidates to actually campaign in California and talk about our issues.”

Supporters of such a bill are confident that if enough states sign similar bills, this can truly become a national movement.

So far, California has become the ninth state along with the District of Columbia to adopt a similar bill. With California, the movement has 132 out of the 270 electoral votes needed to take effect nationwide.

The bill passed through the legislature without Republican support, as most have disapproved of even earlier versions of the bill. Similar versions were attempted in 2006 and 2008 but were vetoed by then Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Schwarzenegger said the plan was “counter to the tradition of our great nation, which honors state rights.”

However, the new plan aims to make elections more streamlined and gain more attention in California in the hopes that it will become more of a battleground state.