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Vaporizing Your Vote? National Popular Vote v. Electoral College
Posted by JILL MILLER ZIMON in Law, Miscellaneous, Places, Politics, Society.
Jul 29th, 2010 | no responses
Jul 29th, 2010 | no responses
If you aren’t old enough to remember Bush v. Gore (serious trivia: for those who’ve followed California’s Prop 8, check out the attorneys in Bush v. Gore and who they represented), don’t worry. The debate it highlighted — should our president be selected by popular vote or the electoral college system — lives on in the efforts of many states, catalogued by National Popular Vote to dump the electoral college in favor of the popular vote, and Massachusetts is just the latest state to walk that way.
Read the rest at Massachusetts’ Legislature Favors Popular Vote over Electoral College: Will Your Vote Get Neutralized?
