Well, he invented the scratch off lottery ticket. So, my question, campers, is what do you think about this? ¶ 9/22/2006 04:35:00 AMThere have been many efforts over the decades to kill the Electoral College, the little-known and widely misunderstood body that actually elects the president based on the individual states that a candidate wins. Most recently, former Representative John B. Anderson of Illinois and former Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana spearheaded a drive, Fair Vote, for a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College.
The brainstorm behind Dr. Koza’s effort, led by a seven-month-old group, National Popular Vote, was to abandon that approach and focus on creating interstate compacts. Those are contracts that bind states over issues like nuclear waste and port authorities.
Dr. Koza’s compact, if approved by enough legislatures, would commit a state’s electors to vote for the candidate who wins the most national votes, even if the candidate loses in that state.
Why are we still not trusted w/ our votes?
And as to those scratch tickets.. that man owes me beaucoup!
It gives fair play to various regional concerns that should have bearing on national elections.
The Electoral College has worked well, and requires a successful candidate to appeal to all regions of the country, and not just pile up a huge margin in one region by pandering to that region, as Cleveland did in 1888.
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