I can’t believe this. Trying to comprehend how any Democrat could have voted for this is frying my brain.
Can people be so naive??????
So if the Republicans rig the vote in their states, CA now has to go along and award its votes to that candidate? Even if the vote isn’t rigged, if people across the country choose the wrong candidate, I don’t want my vote not to count!!!
See below for more info, and what you can do.
I’m quoting a message from a mail list in full, and at the end, giving you the Gov’s number so the Terminator can actually Terminate something that really deserves certain death.
This post was titled “Blue State Suicide Pact”. Note: I’m in favor of doing away with the electoral college. I am NOT in favor of subjecting my state’s electoral college vote to people outside my state!!
Step 1. Rig the machines to rack up 8 million more votes in 2004 than in 2000.
Step 2. In the name of “equal votes,” get the Blue state strongholds to voluntarily surrender theirs.
Step 3. Game Permanently Over.
This is just winner-take-all in another guise.
If the backers of this proposal were sincerely interested in equal votes, they would be proposing allocation of state electoral votes proportionate to the distribution of votes won by each party’s candidate.
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(News article)
Under AB 2948, introduced by Assemblyman Tom Umberg (D-Anaheim), California would grant its electoral votes to the nominee who gets the most votes nationwide — not the most votes in California.
The bill now goes to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has until September 30 to act on it.
The bill was sponsored by Assembly members Tom Umberg (chair of the Assembly Elections Committee, pictured at right), Mervyn M. Dymally, John Laird, Loni Hancock, Mark Leno, and Ted W. Lieu and Senator Jack Scott.
The California legislation would not take effect until enough states passed such laws to make up a majority of the Electoral College votes — a minimum of 11 states, depending on population.
Similar legislation is pending in five other states: New York, Illinois, Missouri, Colorado and Louisiana.
It is expected to be introduced in Vermont and Arizona soon.
The proposed interstate compact implements nationwide popular election of the President by having states agree to jointly award all of their electoral votes to the presidential candidate receiving the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The proposed interstate compact would not take effect until identical legislation is enacted by states possessing a majority of the electoral votes (that is, 270 of the 538 electoral votes). Thus, the compact would only take effect when it can guarantee an Electoral College majority to the presidential candidate receiving the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The proposed compact is described in detail in the book Every Vote Equal: A State-Based Plan For Electing The President By National Popular Vote
(Let’s see how this works. Taking the above 8 states for example, the Blue states (CA, NY, IL, VT) put their 110 electoral votes, and 25,074,901 popular votes, on the table.
The Red states (MO, CO, LA, AZ) put up their total of 39 electoral votes, and 8,738,157 popular votes.
The Blue votes at risk are a stack of chips three times higher than the Red bet.
Diebold deals the cards. Whaddya know? Red wins the national popular vote by 50% + 230 votes in Florida — (where hand recounts have been outlawed).
Red rakes the stack of Blue chips off the table.
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The main informational website:
National Popular Vote’s National Advisory Board now includes:
John Buchanan (R-Alabama),
John Anderson (R-Illinois and later Independent presidential candidate),
Tom Campbell (R-California),
David Durenberger (R-MN),
and Jake Garn (R-Utah)
and token Birch Bayh (D-Indiana),
Download entire book:
California First To Pass Legislation To Establish National Popular Vote For President
by Warren Stewart, VoteTrustUSA – September 1, 2006
California has become the first state to pass legislation in a innovative initiative to render the Electoral College meaningless and establish a national popular vote for president. The bill (AB 2948) – passed by the State Assembly in May and in by the Senate in August – would enact the proposed interstate compact called the “Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote” in California.
The bill was sponsored by Assembly members Tom Umberg (chair of the Assembly Elections Committee, pictured at right), Mervyn M. Dymally, John Laird, Loni Hancock, Mark Leno, and Ted W. Lieu and Senator Jack Scott. The bill now goes to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has until September 30 to act on it. Under AB 2948, introduced by Assemblyman Tom Umberg (D-Anaheim), California would grant its electoral votes to the nominee who gets the most votes nationwide — not the most votes in California. The California legislation would not take effect until enough states passed such laws to make up a majority of the Electoral College votes — a minimum of 11 states, depending on population.
Similar legislation is pending in five other states: New York, Illinois, Missouri, Colorado and Louisiana. It is expected to be introduced in Vermont and Arizona soon.
Legislation to eliminate the Electoral College is introduced into every session of Congress – there is currently one Senate bill and no less than five bills in the House – but the is no chance that such legislation would ever even be addressed in committee much less reach a vote. The state-by-state approach to eliminating the Electoral College was proposed by a group of prominent current and former elected officials and articulated in their book “Every Vote Equal”.
Under the current system of allocating electoral votes in presidential elections (used by 48 states and the District of Columbia), all of a state’s electoral votes are awarded to the candidate receiving the most popular votes within each state. But this system was not established by the Constitution, the Founding Fathers, or federal law. Instead, the allocation of electoral votes is exclusively a matter of state law. In fact, Maine and Nebraska currently award some of their electoral votes by congressional district as an example of this flexibility.
They argue that the current system forces presidential candidates to focus their campaigns on a handful of closely divided “battleground” states, thereby making the voters in two-thirds of the states irrelevant. They have proposed a nationwide popular election of the President. Recognizing that a federal constitutional amendment is both unlikely and unnecessary they have developed a plan whereby states would join together to pass identical state laws awarding all of their electoral votes to the presidential candidate receiving the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
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It takes 38 states to amend the US Constitution.
Under this pact, the Electoral College could be effectively nullified with the votes of as few as 11 states affirming this winner-take-all vote pact.
The result would be only to exchange the present Winner-take-all system based on the Electoral College, for another winner-take-all scheme based on the popular vote–
which need only be rigged in a few populous Blue states.
The result of any Winner-take-all allocation of votes is the nullification of minority opposition votes–
a “minority” which these days is effectively half of all voting Americans.
If you understand that this does, in fact, represent a historic suicide pact among Blue States, PLEASE help. Please call Governor Schwarzenegger (whether you’re in the state or not – he has national aspirations anyway, damn the laws) and register your protest of this outrageous scheme:
Contact the Governor
Governor’s Office
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
State Capitol Building
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: 916-445-2841
Fax: 916-445-4633
To send an Email please visit:
To help us keep track of correspondence and to ensure that we are able to respond to California residents, please be sure to include your name and address when you communicate with the Governor’s Office. We do not accept e-mail attachments.
If you’re not in California, your state may already be participating in this. FIND OUT. SPEAK OUT.
Unbelievable. Unfrickingbelievable. I’m watching my democracy stolen before my eyes and no one is even protesting.