Dems Counter GOP Electoral College Initiative with Two New Initiatives

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Take that!
 
Just a few days after Republicans filed an initiative to steal California's electoral votes by splitting them by Congressional districts, key Democrats fired back by filing two new initiatives with the Attorney General aimed at presenting Californians with real electoral college reforms.
 
The initiatives, which would enact a national popular vote system, would represent real and fair reform of the process used to elect the president of the United States, according to their sponsors.

"The Republican proposal is the wrong reform at the wrong time and in the wrong place," said business leader Tom Steyer in a press release. "They want to divide California's 55 electoral votes by Congressional District, taking the existing complicated and flawed system and making it even more complicated and more flawed," he added. "Not a single prominent Democrat supports the Republican proposal because it is unfair and partisan attempt to rig the system -- and that is why we are promoting a fair election reform that is based on the national popular vote."
 
Electing our President by a national popular vote is a goal supported by an overwhelming majority of Californians. The winner of virtually every other office in the U.S. is the candidate with the most votes. The most important election in the world, the Presidency, should also be based on the principle of one person, one vote.

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