Greens launch effort against Electoral College manipulation of presidential elections

Greens launch effort against Electoral College manipulation of presidential elections–
http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2008/08/07/greens-launch-effort-against-electoral-college-manipulation-of-presidential-elections

Green Party Watch

Asa Gordon, Chair DC Statehood Green Party Electoral College Task Force
Executive Director Douglass Institute of Government

Green Party leaders said today that the outcome of the 2008 presidential election may be affected by the antidemocratic apportionment of Electoral College votes, with the popular vote misrepresented by the winner-take-all system of assigning votes to electors.

ìWeíre in danger of seeing the 2008 election stolen again, as in 2000 and 2004,î said Clyde Shabazz, Green candidate for the US House in Michigan (13th District) (http://www.migreens.org). ìIn Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004, we witnessed the obstruction and manipulation of votes by election officials and possible tampering with computer voting machines. But equally insidious is the malapportionment of Electoral College votes, which disenfranchises whole sections of the voting public.î

A civil action to protect the voting rights of presidential electors and the voters they represent was filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia (1:08-cv-01294) on January 28, 2008, by Asa Gordon, chair of the DC Statehood Green Partyís Electoral College Task Force and executive director of the Douglass Institute of Government (http://members.aol.com/digasa/dig.htm).