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plural ([personal profile] plural) wrote2000-11-08 08:21 am

So you like the Idea and want to help

If you have been reading
you know what I am talking about

If you don't scroll down or
Click Here
also the last few journal entries of mine have been devoted to clarifying this idea
so reading those will probably be good as well

I need your help

If you live in a state
whose electoral votes went to Bush

call your Secretary of State's Office
and get the list of Republican Electoral Nominees
and send that list to me

If you don't live in a Bush State
call the Secretary of State's office of a state that did

you can get a list of the Disclosure Offices for each state
HERE
which includes phone number information for each office


if you want to be even more helpful
pick up your phonebook
and try to find Addresses and Phone numbers
for the people on that list
and send what you can find to me as well

I will be publishing the information
cataloged by state
on the new website which I will be starting
so that people can call them
and let them know
that we expect the Popular vote
to be upheld by the electoral college
and that we expect them
to cast their vote
for the candidate who won
the national popular vote.

Lets make our voices heard

Am i wrong?

[identity profile] licoricelaces.livejournal.com 2000-11-08 12:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Didn't Clinton win with less of the popular vote in '96?

I am not really sure, but for some reason or another this is what i remember.

Re: Am i wrong?

[identity profile] plural.livejournal.com 2000-11-08 12:56 pm (UTC)(link)
In 1996 Clinton won with a plurality of the popular vote, which means that while he did not recieve the majority of the popular vote
he recieved more votes that his opponent

In 2000 it is the same for Gore, by garnering 49% of the popular vote he did not gain a majority, but he did recieve over 200,000 more votes than bush did

it's happened before (not with clinton or kennedy though)

[identity profile] debgirl001.livejournal.com 2000-11-08 01:44 pm (UTC)(link)
only other times this has happened:

1824 John Q Adams Popular Vote: 108,740 (10.5%)
beat Andrew Jackson Popular Vote: 153,544 (43.1%)

1876 Rutherford B. Hayes Popular Vote: 4,036,298 (48.0%)
beat Samuel J Tilden Popular Vote: 4,300,590 (51.0%)

1888 Benjamin Harrison Popular Vote: 5,439,853 (47.9%)
beat Grover Cleveland Popular Vote: 5,540,309 (48.6%)

Re: it's happened before (not with clinton or kennedy though)

[identity profile] plural.livejournal.com 2000-11-08 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks for the info
I knew it happened three times
but didnt have the specifics

in each case the courts
upheld the electoral vote
which is why it is so
important that
we get our message out
to the electors
and make sure they hear us

Deb we could use
someone of your intelligence
and sense of civic duty on
our side.

can we count on you?