CA initiative to change Electoral College vote will be on 2008 ballot?

[Anywho6]

I thought I was hearing things--they had a VERY short piece on the local news saying that they had gathered enough signatures on this ballot initiative. I'm looking for confirmation, but can't find any! This is NOT good news (assuming that the signatures can be validated!).

[MonkeyFunk]

1. No

I don't think it's qualified yet. A google search doesn't show any such news.

[pinto]

2. Not even close yet, as far as signatures go. And if the extremists that sponsor this

succeed with placing it on the ballot, I think it'll be defeated handily. We remember the Davis recall a little too well to get sucked into another RW initiative/proposition ploy.

[AndyTiedye]

6. It Will Only be Defeated if We Divert All of Our Resources to Fighting It

Most of the money that we would ordinarily be giving to the Democratic Presidential campaign
will actually need to be spent defeating this measure, because if it passes, it's all over.

[bluestateguy]

3. Don't post that shit unless you have any evidence

No link, followed by a bunch of hand-wringing!

Ugh!

[Anywho6]

8. Hey, I was looking for info. I saw it on KCRA. Happy now? n/t

[kansasblue]

4. I read they had 400,000 sigs and were going for 700,000+

I think it will be on the ballot. I think they need 400,000 good one.

[kansasblue]

5. oct poll has the state opposed to the change

http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/10/california_stat_19.html

October 31, 2007. 6 comments. Topic: Electoral College
California Statewide Poll Results--Voters Overwhelmingly Reject Electoral Power Grab Initiative

[IDemo]

7. It appears all but dead if this link is correct:

http://tinyurl.com/2js2a8

Ding Dong the Dirty Trick Is Dead
by: Julia Rosen
Fri Sep 28, 2007 at 13:31:31 PM PDT

(cross-posted on Daily Kos)

You killed it. All of the noise you made. The blog posts. The donations. The email forwards to friends. The petitions. The copies of the intiative you sent to Arnold. Everything. The netroots mobilized, and the right-wing backed down. This is a lone bright victory, in what has been a tough couple of weeks.

Absent some big rich right-winger stepping up with $2 million in the next few days, the attempt to put an initiative on the ballot to steal 20 of California's electoral votes is kaput. The main Republican lawyer for the California Republican Party, and the mastermind behind this has quit. They can't find anyone who is not a front group established in MO to donate. In short, the campaign is in disarray.

The campaign needed to collect at a bare minimum 433,971 valid signatures. In reality they needed to exceed that by 2/3rds to ensure that they would make the ballot. At last count they were only 40,000 towards getting that done. Remember they needed to be in by November to make it. The likelihood of them being able to recoup at this point and make it on the ballot is slim.