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Electoral Reform California Initiative Could Split California Presidential Votes Part II

Little noticed except among election 2008 compulsives, the California Electoral Reform Initiative is making a big splash in the Christian Science Monitor today.

Soren has more on the North Carolina change in delegate selection process that Flap mentioned here.

Should this initiative qualify, it may well determine whether Hillary or Rudy is the next President.

Anyone want to bet the Democrats drop the effort in North Carolina?

Well, NO, they won’t.

The California Initiative will pass.

In California, the measure’s passage would probably be determined by voter turnout, and that could favor Republicans, experts say.

“The state will have just voted in February, and there is no US Senate race so June turnout will likely be low, which works against the Democrats,” says Quinn. Democrats, who usually argue for more fairness in elections and the end of the electoral college system, are in a quandary over how to fight this, he says.

“The Democrats are being hoisted on their own petards,” says Quinn. “They say, ‘Let’s make elections fairer,’ and Republicans are saying, ‘Okay, let’s do it this way,’ and Democrats are beside themselves because they know what it will likely do.”

But, watch California Attorney General, Jerry Brown and other California pols use the courts to derail the initiative and try to keep it off the June 2008 ballot.

The initiative is here.

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