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Article: Tweaking voting for prez Popular vote winner would get backing of the Electoral College.(News)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- March 29, 2006
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Byline: Stuart Steers, Rocky Mountain News
Colorado could be in the forefront of an effort to effectively abolish the Electoral College if a bill sponsored by state Senate Majority Leader Ken Gordon, D-Denver, becomes law.
Gordon's bill is part of a national movement to undo the role of the Electoral College, which became controversial in 2000 when Vice President Al Gore won a majority of the popular vote but still lost the election to George W. Bush in the Electoral College.
The plan would work like this: Colorado would enter into a compact with a number of other states, pledging that all its Electoral College delegates would vote for the ...