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Article: Ill. Law Would Bypass Electoral College
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- April 8, 2008
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Illinois will award its presidential electoral votes to the winner of the nationwide popular vote _ but only if several other states follow suit.
A bill signed into law Monday by Gov. Rod Blagojevich made Illinois the third state, after Maryland and New Jersey, ready to bypass the Electoral College in November. The three states, with a combined 46 electoral votes, won't act unless states totaling 270 electoral votes _ enough to elect a president _ sign on.
"By signing this law, we in Illinois are making it clear that we believe every voter has an equal voice in electing our nation's leaders," Blagojevich said in a statement. As a congressman in 2000, the governor ...