Friday, November 26, 2004

There is movement towards making your vote count

If we start today, maybe enough of us will eventually be convinced that we can make our vote count in a presidential election, whether we're a Republican in Massachusetts, a Democrat in Texas or a Libertarian in Wyoming. There are steps being taken to eliminate the Electoral College. Jesse Jackson, Jr. introduced HJR109 and Delahunt and others have introduced HJR103; both bills call for a popular election of the president and vice president.

We can do something today: write our senator or congressman; sign a petition at
http://www.fairvote.org/petitions/ec/index.php
or write a letter to the editor of your local paper.

2 comments:

Drew said...

Couldn't agree more! It's arcane that 3/4 of the states are considered insignifigant and ignored for the big show. And they wonder why voter turnout is so low...

Anonymous said...

It's too bad it will never happen, since we are a union of states... but it is the only way to truely make every vote count.

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