Democrats counter electoral vote initiative« Thread Started on Sept 14, 2007, 3:09pm » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Democrats counter electoral vote initiativeread at source> http://weblog.signonsandiego.com/news/b ... California Democratic Party chairman Art Torres on Thursday announced a "do-not-sign" campaign to counter a Republican-sponsored ballot initiative drive to award California's presidential electoral votes by congressional district rather than current statewide winner-take-all system.President Bush would have gotten 22 additional electoral votes for a comfortable re-election in 2004 had the system been in place, despite losing the state badly.In a conference call with reporters, Torres said local Democratic organizations will try to determine the locations of petition circulators and send volunteers there to "educate" voters about the "national conspiracy by the Republican Party.""Our intention is to make sure that we are there to rebut whatever is on that signature page so people will know what they are signing and hopefully decide not to sign," he said.The initiative was officially cleared for circulation last week after it was titled by Attorney General Jerry Brown's office as "Presidential electors. Political party nomination and election by congressional district."Initiative spokesman Kevin Eckery said paid petition circulators have been hired to obtain the necessary 433,971 registered voter signatures in time to qualify for the June 2008 ballot.