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Republicans Failing in Effort to Split California's Electoral Votes

Posted by Stephanie Taylor on September 28, 2007 at 10:53 AM

Last week we reported on a Republican-sponsored ballot initiative that would have changed the way California distributes its electoral votes--a change that Republicans believed would allow them to pick up seats in California and win the White House.

Now we learn that the ballot initiative is dead--at least for now. The Los Angeles Times reported today that:

The proposal to change the winner-take-all electoral vote allocation to one by congressional district is virtually dead with the resignation of key supporters, internal disputes and a lack of funds...The reality is hundreds of thousands of signatures must be gathered by the end of November to get the measure on the June 2008 ballot.

The initiative began in July under mysterious circumstances. The paperwork was filed by a Republican law firm in Sacramento, but the financial backers remained anonymous--leading Bob Herbert of the New York Times to say this looked like another Republican "dirty trick."

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