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To: Bill who wrote (7356)	5/31/2006 7:17:17 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

California devises end-run around electoral college (Passed!) CoCoTimes ^ \| 5/28/06 \| Jim Sanders contracostatimes.com Six years after Democrat Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the presidency to Republican George W. Bush, there's a new move afoot in the California Legislature and other states to ensure that such things never happen again. The linchpin is a proposed "interstate compact," designed to guarantee that presidents will be selected by popular vote, without amending the U.S. Constitution or eliminating the electoral college. Assemblyman Tom Umberg, a Santa Ana Democrat who chairs the Assembly Election and Redistricting Committee, said the basic premise is understandable even to children. "When you're in first grade, if the person who got the second-most votes became class leader, the kids would recognize that this is not a fair system," he said. Umberg's Assembly Bill 2948, proposing such a compact, passed the Assembly's elections and appropriations committees on party-line votes, with Republicans opposed. "We have a system that's worked effectively for more than 200 years," said Sal Russo, a GOP political consultant. "We probably should be very hesitant to change that." John Koza, an official of National Popular Vote, which is pushing the proposal, said sentiment has not split along party lines in other states. "I don't think anyone can convincingly put their finger on any partisan advantage," said Koza, a consulting professor at Stanford University. Though Republicans disproportionately benefited from the electoral college in 2000, when Bush edged Gore despite getting 544,000 fewer votes, Democrats nearly turned the tables four years later.