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California Rejects US Republic Form of Government

News Type: Event — Seeded on Wed May 31, 2006 3:04 PM EDT
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“The bill would pledge California's 55 Electoral College votes to the winner of the national popular vote, a system critics charged was an attempt to circumvent the U.S. Constitution.”

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Darkmane

Actaully as I understand it the Constitution leaves it up to the individual state legislatures to decide how to pick the representatives for the electoral college. It is tradition that it is done by the popular vote of the state but there was talk of the Florida legislature appointing the slate of electoral college members if a decision could not have been made by the dead line in 2000.

Were I a California resident I would be against this decision, more because I prefer my solution of allocating the electoral college votes by congressional district and the two extra (for senatorial seats) to be allocated by the popular vote of the state.

But that is my whack job idea.

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Reply#1 - Thu Jun 1, 2006 4:07 PM EDT