National Popular Vote Legislation (California)

Common Cause emailed me today to ask me to call Gov. Schwarzenegger and ask him to sign this.

I think this bill is premature.  It will be fine when the nation's elections are honest, but until that time this could backfire, and permit election tampering in other states to take away California's choice for President.  

For example, let's wildly speculate that, in 2008, Ohio's elections are so rigged, that its "official result" is that candidate B wins by one million votes, even though exit polls show candidate A should have won by, say, a half million.  

If this corruption puts candidate B over the top nationally in a close popular race, when the existing system would have worked in favor of candidate A, California will be forced, by this agreement, to give its votes to candidate B.  It will make it easier for the vote thieves to win.

I'd rather see a bill that would advocate Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell be indicted for election fraud, racketeering, etc., and the Ohio election put under some kind of protective
supervision.

Once we have elections that can be certified as clean by the international commission Jimmy Carter is on, then I think this bill may be a good idea.