2008-06-06 Senator proposes to end Electoral College

2008-06-06 US Senate \US/Electoral College\US electoral reform\Bill Nelson\One Person, One Vote Initiative http://billnelson.senate.gov/news/details.cfm?id=298907 Senator proposes to end Electoral College &ldquo;A U.S. senator from a state known for election snafus today filed a package of reforms to change national voting procedures, including proposals to abolish the Electoral College in favor of direct popular election of the president and to allow voters, not party bosses, to select presidential candidates. .. The legislation, by Florida Democrat Bill Nelson, comes at the end of a long primary season in which major rules disputes threatened to exclude Florida and Michigan from having a say in the selection of a Democratic presidential nominee. It could be the opening bid in the first significant attempt in Congress to overhaul the core of the presidential election and primary systems since then-Indiana Sen. Birch Bayh narrowly lost two separate tries to abolish the Electoral College in 1970 and 1979.&rdquo;   