DENVER (AP) -- A plan to scrap the winner-take-all system of allocating electoral votes in Colorado is heading to the ballot in November.
If passed, Amendment 36 would make Colorado the first state to allocate electoral votes proportionately according to the popular vote, rather than giving a winner all of the state's electoral votes.
Secretary of State Donetta Davidson said Friday that supporters have gathered enough signatures to put the measure on the November ballot.
If the proposal had been in place four years ago, Democrat Al Gore would have earned enough electoral votes to go to the White House.
Despite the fact that measures such as these would have lost the election for Bush in 2000, the winner-take-all policy for electoral votes in states just isn't a good way to represent the wishes of the voters. A proportionate distribution of electoral votes based on the popular vote will allow for the minority opinion in a state to be heard on the national level.
To be honest I'd like to see this country do away with the electoral college altogether and go to a straight popular vote. The electoral college was a solution for an age where communication technology didn't exist and nation-wide popular elections were simply impossible. But America isn't in the 19th century any more. Its time to do away with 19th century solutions and embrace true democracy.