The Electoral College: Source of Inequality and Social Injustice in America
by
Gary Parish
REFERENCES
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• One Person One Vote Myth
• Fundamentally Unfair!
• See For Yourself!
• Social Injustice
• Football Analogy
• Moral Arguments
• EC Cancels Votes
• Founding Fathers
• Invalid Arguments For EC
• States' Rights?
• Reform Options
• Conclusion
• Inequality Maps
• EC Cartoons
• Postscript:Voting Power
• References
• Acknowledgements


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1. Population Estimates for States by Race and Hispanic Origin: July 1, 1999Source: Population Estimates Program, Population Division, U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, DC 20233. Contact: Statistical Information Staff, Population Division, U.S. Census Bureau (301-457-2422)pop@census.gov . Internet Release Date: August 30, 2000. http://www.census.gov/population/estimates/state/srh/srh99.txt

2. TIME Almanac 2000, TIME Almanac, PO Box 11016, Des Moines, IA 50336-1016

3. Table 1. Projections of the Population of Voting Age, for States, by Race, Hispanic Origin, Sex, and Selected Ages: November 7, 2000. Source: U.S. Census Bureau. Internet Release date: July 31, 2000. (Population 18 years and over. Includes Armed Forces in each state.)
http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/voting/proj00/tab01.txt

4. Voter Registration and Turnout - 1996. (Voting age population numbers from this table were used to calculate the percent of state population that participate in the vote. This percent was applied to the 2000 census numbers for the calculations of Inequality statistics for the Jewish population.
http://www.fec.gov/pages/96to.htm

5. Jewish Population by State:
www.us- israel.org/jsource/US-Israel/usjewpop.html

6. League of Women Voters: Where We Stand on Election Reform. A Statement from Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins, President of the League of Women Voters, December 14, 2000.
http://www.lwv.org/where/promoting/electoral 1970study.html

7. Background Paper by William R. Keach for the Twentieth Century Fund "Task Force on Reform of the Presidential Election Process, 1978. Published by Holmes and Meyer Publishers, Inc. 30 Irving Place New York, NY 10003. http://www tcf.org/Politics/Winner_Take_All.pdf

8. Aftermath(ematics) of Election 2000, Web Page by Bill Briggs
http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~wbriggs/election2000/election2000.html

9. Voting Power Electoral College 2000. Web Page by John Banzhaf,
http://banzhaf.net/ec2000.html

10. "Indices of Power" Computer Program, by Thomas Brδuninger and Thomas Kφnig, of the Department of Politics and Management, University of Konstanz, Germany.
http://www.uni-konstanz.de/FuF/Verwiss/koenig/IOP.html

11. Should The Electoral College Be Abolished in Favor of Direct Elections?, by Phillip Klinkner,
http://www.insightmag.com/archive/200012192.shtml

12. Amy, Douglas J., "Entrenching the Two-Party System: The Supreme Court's Fusion Decision", in "The U.S. Supreme Court and the Electoral Process" Edited by David K. Ryden, Georgetown University Press, Washington, D.C., 2000.

13. Citizens for True Democracy Web Page,
http://www.cmcstudent.com/ctd/index.htm>

14. United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights Web Page
http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/eng.htm

15. Glenn W. Rainey, Jr., and Jane G. Rainey. "Reexamining the Distribution of Power in the Electoral College: The 'Constant Two', the 2000 Election, and Emergent Geosocial Cleavage in America." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia, November 7 - 10, 2001.
Original Working Paper

16. Sayre, Wallace S. and Judith H. Parris. 1970. Voting for President: The Electoral College and the American Political System. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution.

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