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| DC Statehood Green Activist to Lead Workshop on 'Democratizing the Electoral College' at the Green National Convention. |
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THE D.C. STATEHOOD GREEN PARTY Monday, June 21, 2004 Contact: D.C. STATEHOOD GREEN ACTIVIST TO LEAD WORKSHOP ON 'DEMOCRATIZING THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE' AT THE GREEN NATIONAL CONVENTION WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Asa Gordon, chair of the D.C. Statehood Green Party's Electoral College Task Force, will lead a workshop on 'The Green Party's Role In Democratizing the Electoral College' during Forward! 2004, the Green National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The convention takes place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from June 23 to 28. The D.C. Statehood Green Party has qualified for 11 delegates to participate in the nomination process at the convention. David Cobb, leading in the delegate count for the Green Party's presidential nomination, has confirmed that he will begin the Electoral College workshop with opening remarks. The workshop will take place Thursday, June 24, 4:30 to 5:45 p.m. in the Executive A&B room of the Hyatt Regency in downtown Milwaukee. Mr. Gordon, who is also executive director of the Douglass Institute of Government, has led the legal effort to enforce the 14th Amendment's mandate for citizens' voting rights subject to the malapportionment penalty. The Electoral College workshop will address the planned civil actions against the malapportionment of Electoral College votes guaranteed under Section 2 of the 14th Amendment. The workshop will address efforts by the Statehood Green Party's Electoral College Task Force and the Douglass Institute of Government to educate the public about their full constitutional rights and the need to effect the Reconstruction Era's constitutional de jure mandate for electoral reform by proportional representation. The workshop will also cover: (1) The D.C. Statehood Green Party's recent successful civil action to complel the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics to count and announce write-in votes cast by Statehood Green voters in the District's January 13 primary election. On June 4, the D.C. Court of Appeals decided in favor of Statehood Green voter David Best, a Howard University law student and a member of the party's Electoral College Task Force, in his lawsuit against the Board of Elections and Ethics. The court, in its decision, ordered the Board to count the write-in votes. (2) The 'D.C. Blue-Green Voter X-Change Project', proposed by Mr. Gordon, encourages Democratic voters in Washington, D.C. to 'swap' vote pledges to vote Green with Green Party pledges in selected swing states (states where the outcome of the presidential vote is uncertain) to vote Democrat. The Blue-Green Voter X-Change Project has not been endorsed by the D.C. Statehood Green Party or Green Party of the United States, but the national Green Party Black Caucus has endorsed it as a strategy to help ensure the defeat of George W. Bush in 2004 while winning the District of Columbia's three electoral votes for the Green Party. MORE INFORMATION |
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