[Peace-discuss] Here is an idea

[Marti]

I can imagine anyone finding a way to corrupt an election. Just making the
popular vote the standard through either dispensing with the Electoral
College or by redistributing electoral votes as Laurie suggested might
manage to make the job somewhat harder. 

Voter fraud is nothing new and it doesn't even have a specific party
affiliation. How many dead people voted for JFK? I do think the manner in
which our current system is set up does make it easier to engage in
practices of misconduct.


-----Original Message-----
From: John W. [mailto:jbw292002 at gmail.com] 
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