Another Ballot inititative to change CA EV allocation

[zorkpolitics]

Its back.....
An Electoral College Reform Act ballot initiative has been approved for circulation in California.
Once again it would allocate CA EV by Congressional District.
The circulation deadline is July 5, 2011. 504,760 signatures must be submitted by that date to election officials if the measure is to qualify for the state's February 4, 2012 ballot as an initiated state statute.
http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Electoral_college_votes_measure_approved_for_circulation

Interesting target election:  The Presidential Primary, with Obama having no opposition, Democratic turnout might be light while Republican turnout in the competitive Super Tuesday primary could be huge, possibly pushing the initiative to pass...

This obviously would change CA from 55 solid Democratic EV to possibly a 36D -19R (CA has 19 Republican Congressman).  With 19 EV from California, a GOP candidate could easily lose the Popular vote nationwide by as much as 3%, but still win back the 4 closest states from 2008: Ohio, Florida, Indiana, North Carolina for a 273 EV win.

[zorkpolitics]

I agree it is politically motivated.
A similar politically motivated change was attempted by the then Democratically controlled legislature in CO,  in 2006 the Democrats tried to change to Congressional allotment so as to take votes away from a GOP victor, a bit ironic because in 2008 Obama carried CO and he would have lost a few EV.