Posts Tagged ‘Electoral College’

Green Party Black Caucus issues press release

Posted in National Greens on January 10th, 2010 by Gregg Jocoy – Comments Off

Yesterday the Green Party Black Caucus issued a press release addressing a letter of protest they sent to Attorney General Eric Holder. In part the GPBC is concerned about the impact of the Electoral College on minority and smaller party voters. The full text of the press release is below the fold.

In addition, the GPBC website carries this 12 minute video of Asa Gordon called “Democratizing the Electoral College” H/T to Diane White.

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Asa Gordon Oral Argument on Democratizing the Electoral College

Posted in Grassroots Democracy on December 9th, 2009 by Ronald Hardy – 3 Comments

From Independent Political Report:

Asa Gordon is Chair of the DC Statehood Green Party Electoral College Task Force and Executive Director of Douglass Institute for Government. Gordon’s civil suit concerning reform of the Electoral College will have oral arguments in the United States Court of Appeals on January 14, 2010. The lawsuit, Gordon v. Biden, pleas for a Declaratory Judgment by the U.S. court for a proportional allocation of presidential electors in states where there is no “Winner-take-all” rule in the laws of that state. (Ie: some states use a “Winner-take-all rule in giving out their electoral votes, when there is no law or reason for them to do so.) Gordon believes that the federal government should make the Declaratory Judgment in order to comply with the mal-apportionment penalty of the Constitution.
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Asa Gordon of DC Statehood Green Party discusses the electoral college

Posted in Grassroots Democracy on August 30th, 2009 by Gregg Jocoy – 3 Comments


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H/T to Diane White of PA.

Greens launch effort against Electoral College manipulation of presidential elections

Posted in Grassroots Democracy, National Greens, Presidential Campaign, State Party News on August 7th, 2008 by DLighte – 4 Comments


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

• Malapportionment of Electoral College votes may lead to a Republican victory despite the popular vote, disenfranchising tens of thousands of voters, especially black voters in southern states
• Green civil action seeks to democratize the Electoral College by enforcing 14th Amendment voter protections, names Vice President Cheney as defendent
WASHINGTON, DC — 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.
“We’re in danger of seeing the 2008 election stolen again, as in 2000 and 2004,” said Clyde Shabazz, Green candidate for the US House in Michigan (13th District) read more »