[EL] Michigan electoral college bill

[Sean Parnell]

Here’s a description of the Michigan bill referenced below, per a site called Michigan Votes:

 

2014 House Bill 5974: Pro-rate Michigan's electoral college presidential votes <http://www.michiganvotes.org/2014-HB-5974> 

Introduced by Rep. Pete Lund (R) on November 13, 2014, to revise the manner in which Michigan's 16 votes in the Electoral College are allocated in a presidential election. The party getting the most popular votes would get half the Electoral College votes plus one, and one additional presidential elector for every 1.5 percent of the popular vote that the candidate receives over 50 percent of the popular vote. The party that comes in second would get the remainder. Currently, all states except Nebraska and Maine allocate their Electoral College on a “winner take all” basis. Reportedly, under the proposed system, rather than delivering all its electoral votes to Barrack Obama in 2012, he would have gotten 12 votes and Mitt Romney four votes. 

I would note that this is NOT the one-electoral-vote-per-congressional-district plan that’s been bandied about in the past (and which I oppose, for a variety of reasons). I tend to like this concept however. 

 

Oh, and I’d note that the National Popular Vote Spambot has apparently hit the Michigan Votes site regarding this bill, as there are three posts right under it that are the exact same cut-and-paste posts that I see just about everywhere anybody ever discusses anything having to do with the electoral college. If you want to have some fun, ask the Spambot a question, I’m about 99.9% certain you’ll get another cut-and-paste response.

 

Best,

 

Sean Parnell

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sean at impactpolicymanagement.com

 

From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Winger
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Ballot Access News - Michigan Legislative Committee is Hearing Testimony on Electoral College Bill <http://www.ballot-access.org/2014/12/michigan-legislative-committee-is-hearing-testimony-on-electoral-college-bill/> 


 


 

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 <http://www.ballot-access.org/2014/12/michigan-legislative-committee-is-hearing-testimony-on-electoral-college-bill/> Ballot Access News - Michigan Legislative Committee is H...

The Michigan House Elections & Ethics Committee is hearing testimony on HB 5974. The committee meeting started at noon, Tuesday, December 2. 

	


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