[Peace-discuss] Here is an idea

[Laurie at advancenet.net]

It may not be necessary to totally eliminate the Electoral College and
electoral vote in favor of direct popular elections of the President and
Vice President.  One could accomplish the same thing effectively by making
each state distribute its electoral votes proportionately in accordance with
the popular vote for each of the candidates or write-ins receiving a vote
within that state.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net [mailto:peace-discuss-
> bounces at lists.chambana.net] On Behalf Of John W.
> Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 9:30 PM
> To: Marti; peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Here is an idea
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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