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Originally Posted by Vexx
Heh... our state's initiative process has a judicial committee whose sole purpose is to rewrite misleading propositions and get rid of double negatives, etc. It can also deny "omnibus" initiatives (that should be split up, like e.g. "legalize weed, stop abortion" would get zapped).
It doesn't stop stupidity from reaching the ballot, but it does make it pretty clear when its a stupid initiative. 
@Simonsy - its a mistake to look at a map and go by "Square mileage" - the results are by population density. Try to see if you can find a map that redefines a county's graphic size by population density. They have them for the U.S. but not sure about individual states.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/ |
Don't want square milleage. I want same as the country's electoral. Make each county worth so many electoral votes, which is loosely based on population. Say make it based on # of mayers or something. Like how electoral is based on senators/house in the state.
Mayers wouldn't work cause a big city has one, and 10 small cities that same size combined equal that big city have 10 total. But just tossing in an idea.
I just feel its dumb to have one be population and another electoral. Be the same in both. Whether its population or electoral.
Someone mentions Gore/Bush. Don't forget Kerry/Bush. Bush beat Kerry by like 3,000,000 votes population. Very wide margin. Yet Kerry was only like 50,000 votes away in one state from winning.
At least its not as stupid as the College Football Bowls selection process.