GOP legislators in CA want to hook their party up with electoral votes!

[Knurled99]

Republican state legislators John Benoit(R-Palm Desert) and Tom Harman(R-Huntington Beach) announced a proposal to end the winner-takes-all electoral college system in CA and replace it with a system where the majority winner takes only two points, and each candidate gets 1 additional point for every district won. If this scenario had taken place on Nov. 2, Bush would have taken at least one third of California's electoral votes. This would be an unbelievable give-away to GOP presidential candidates in future elections and must be stopped... I've already sent out some letters and ask that any other CA DUers do the same....

-=Brad=-

Link to information (editorial from CONSERVATIVE newspaper in Riverside!)

http://www.pe.com/localnews/opinion/editorials/stories/PE_OpEd_Opinion_op_05_ed_electoral.a1ae2.html

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Will do

but I haver a better idea, lets get rid of the electoral college

And I can bet we will see this as a petition if htey cannot get it any other way

[TaleWgnDg]

2. Uuuuummmmm, and they didn't propose to make this stupidity

retroactive too? LOL


edited to add: BTW, do you have a source for this? a url reference?

[still_one]

3. it won't happen unless the democrats let it

in addition, this should be done on a national level

[Knurled99]

4. You are right...

but if it does NOT happen on a national level right away, and CA starts giving a third of it's electoral votes to the GOP, we would have a serious challenge to deal with.

[Menshevik]

5. ugh

Benoit is my rep :puke: