[Peace-discuss] Here is an idea

[John W.]

At 09:04 PM 9/29/2007, Marti wrote:

>Bush won the initial election because he was able to get the most votes in
>Florida. Do I think the republicans fixed the election? Well yeah, but at
>this point rehashing the subject is about as effective as eating sour
>grapes.
>
>Perhaps what can be considered is taking a good look at the electoral vote
>and either modifying it or getting rid of it altogether so the presidency
>goes to the person who gets the popular vote. That might help increase voter
>turnout and it would discourage networks from calling the elections before
>all of the votes have been counted.


Sounds good to me.  Go ahead and implement that system nationwide, Marti, 
in time for the next election if you can.  I don't imagine the Republicans 
would be able to figure out any way of corrupting an election based on the 
POPULAR vote. :-P