On May 2, a Colorado House of Representatives Committee killed SB 06-223. That bill was one of the bills in 5 states that proposed an interstate compact. States agreeing to the compact would only appoint presidential electors who promised to vote for whichever presidential candidate polled the most popular votes nationwide. The Colorado bill had passed the Colorado Senate last month.
Was this unexpected? Didn’t Colorado have a referendum to change the way they award their electoral votes? It failed as I recall but it seemed to me they were interested in doing away with “winner take all”. Interesting…
Darn. Oh well, maybee after this November’s elections.
Dear Sirs:
The best and the brightest of the delegates to the Constitutitonal Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 favored the right of the people to elect the president directly. This included 4 of the top 5 speakers to the Convention and at least 8 of the 39 signers. No one at the convention spoke against the right of the people as a matter of principle. The objections made were temporal in nature: At the time, the people of one part of the United States did not know much of the candidates from other parts of the United States due to communication problems. Such objections no longer operate in view of television, mass media, national magazines, internet, etc.
Gary Michael Coutin