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House to consider bill to eliminate Electoral College
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The Boston Globe
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July 9, 2008
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House lawmakers will consider legislation today that could
someday rid the state of the Electoral College system and put
presidential elections more directly in the hands of voters.
Massachusetts would become the fifth state to join a movement
toward switching to a popular vote, an initiative that would be
implemented only if states representing a majority of the nation's
538 electoral votes approve similar legislation.
The plan would not affect the 2008 election and would not be put
into place until 2012, at the earliest.
The House is planning to vote today, and the Senate will likely
follow next week. Both House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi and Senate
President Therese Murray support the ...