Greens launch effort against Electoral College manipulation of presidential elections

Source: Green Party press release

WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders said today that the outcome of the 2008 presidential election may be affected by the antidemocratic apportionment of Electoral College votes, with the popular vote misrepresented by the winner-take-all system of assigning votes to electors.

"We're in danger of seeing the 2008 election stolen again, as in 2000 and 2004," said Clyde Shabazz, Green candidate for the US House in Michigan (13th District) (http://www.migreens.org). "In Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004, we witnessed the obstruction and manipulation of votes by election officials and possible tampering with computer voting machines. But equally insidious is the malapportionment of Electoral College votes, which disenfranchises whole sections of the voting public."

A civil action to protect the voting rights of presidential electors and the voters they represent was filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia (1:08-cv-01294) on January 28, 2008, by Asa Gordon, chair of the DC Statehood Green Party's Electoral College Task Force and executive director of the Douglass Institute of Government (http://members.aol.com/digasa/dig.htm).

The action seeks relief against the defendant, Vice President Cheney, who will preside over the tabulation of "unbound electoral states" on January 6, 2009, challenging the recognition of Electoral College votes that are apportioned by states on a winner-take-all basis.

The civil action seeks enforcement of the 'Mal-Apportionment Penalty' provided in Section 2 of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, which mandates a reduction of a state's presidential electors and congressional representatives if "the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States... is denied... or in any way abridged."

Read more: http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=85

If we have to have an Electoral College(and it's time our party got 110% behind getting rid of it)we should be pushing for legislation in every state to distribute EC votes proportionally, instead of winner-take-all.

We should work hard, as a start, to get every Southern state legislature with a Democratic majority to enact legislation creating EC proportionality.

There's no longer any good reason that our electoral system should give right-wing voters from one region what is effectively a weighted vote.

We should elect the president as equal Americans, not as regions. Regionalism has never given us anything positive. It did, however, give us a million war dead on American soil between 1861 and 1865.

Our current electoral system pushes us apart instead of bringing us together.

theirs, as well

WTF are the DEMS doing about this?

amassing another $25 million election theft war chest that they'll sit on again?

Q3JR4.