Colorado thinking about splitting their EVs based

[Rob E Dangerously 0]

*GASP*

 

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/po...itics-headlines

 

use the l/p of bselig/bselig if need be

 

Colo. Weighs Proportional Electoral Votes

By Associated Press

DENVER — A plan to scrap the winner-take-all system of allocating electoral votes in Colorado is heading to the ballot in November.

 

If passed, Amendment 36 would make Colorado the first state to allocate electoral votes proportionately according to the popular vote, rather than giving a winner all of the state's electoral votes.

 

Secretary of State Donetta Davidson said Friday that supporters have gathered enough signatures to put the measure on the November ballot.

 

If the proposal had been in place four years ago, Democrat Al Gore would have earned enough electoral votes to go to the White House.

 

Only two other states do not have winner-take-all systems of casting electoral college votes. Nebraska and Maine give two votes to the winner of each state, and remaining votes are cast to show who won each congressional district.

 

Republican Gov. Bill Owens and Republican State Party Chairman Ted Halaby have criticized the Colorado proposal, saying it would lessen the state's clout in presidential elections. They warn that candidates will ignore the state and its nine electoral votes if the measure passes.

 

Julie Brown, campaign director for the Make Your Vote Count effort that supports the measure, dismissed their concerns.

 

"It begs the question on which is more important -- a two-hour presidential stop at a tarmac at Denver International Airport or true representation by the voters."

 

Katy Atkinson, a spokeswoman for the opposing Coloradans Against a Really Stupid Idea, promised to challenge the measure if it passes and it is applied in this year's presidential race.

 

The proposal's backers want it to take effect immediately, before Colorado's electoral votes are cast in December.

 

"They are ripe for a court challenge on this," Atkinson said. "If this is a close race like the one four years ago, we could be thrown into a situation where we are the Florida of 2004. We'd be the laughing stock of the country. All those Florida jokes would be applied to Colorado."

 

State Sen. Ron Tupa, D-Boulder, tried unsuccessfully in 2001 to change Colorado's electoral system. He said the new ballot initiative is a good idea.

 

"It will give voters the unique opportunity to reform an outdated electoral system that disenfranchises hundreds of thousands of Colorado voters," he said.

 

"But, they'll just campaign in Denver!"

 

This appears to at least be similar to the idea I've mentioned.

 

note: with the Maine/Nebraska Congressional District setup, Colorado splits their votes 6-2, and forces the election into the House

 

and with the setup they mention, Bush gets 4, Gore gets 3, and presumably Nader gets an electoral vote.

[Guest Salacious Crumb]

This is a terrible idea. You can't just change it in one state, it has to be universal. And what the Republicans are saying is true. Candidates will just skip Colorado almost entirely if the best they can hope for is 6 or 7 votes.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Doesn't N.H. or some hippie state in the Northeast split their electoral vote?...

[Rob E Dangerously 0]

Maine and Nebraska split their votes on Congressional districts. As I mentioned and as the article mentioned

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

I really need to start reading articles all the way through.

 

Oh, yeah. I'm torn a bit on this issue. I could see the appeal for someone in a pro-Bush state wanting to vote for Gore and have it mean something and versa vice, but I'd still stick with the winner-take-all way...

[Slayer 0]

Nebraska

Dang hippie state

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Well, there's a lot of weed there -- or am I thinking of wheat?...

[BX 0]

Corn actully.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

I don't listen to that rap/metal mix stuff -- although I liked their appearance on South Park...

[Highland 0]

I hear there's quite a bit of weed hiddden in the corn fields of Nebraska...

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Hence your "High Land" title?...

[JangoFett4Hire 0]

Doesn't N.H. or some hippie state in the Northeast split their electoral vote?...

A state that has a NASCAR track is disqualified as a hippy state.

 

MA and VT would however qualify as hippy states, and neither has split votes.

 

*leaves to find a slut of his own to bang*