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  • Rx for national vote-count chaos

    06/29/2010 2:34:23 AM PDT · by Scanian · 18 replies
    NY Post ^ | June 29, 2010 | MICHAEL M. UHLMANN
    The state Senate may be clueless about how to fix New York's fiscal mess, but it's absolutely confident that it knows how to reform the nation's electoral system. It just endorsed the so-called National Popular Vote plan, which would radically alter the nation's presidential election system without bothering to amend the Constitution. The Assembly and the governor should kill this scheme. The idea is to prevent a repeat of the 2000 election, when Al Gore won the popular vote but George W. Bush won the electoral vote and the presidency. Sounds reasonable -- but this "solution" would only bring greater...