ADVISORY BOARD:
- Hon. John B. Anderson (IL)
- Hon. Birch Bayh (IN)
- Hon. John Buchanan (AL)
- Hon. Tom Campbell (CA)
- Hon. David Durenberger (MN)
- Hon. Jake Garn (UT)
- Tom Downey (D-NY)
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EVERY VOTE EQUAL:
A State-Based Plan For Electing
The President By National Popular Vote
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By John R. Koza, Barry Fadem, Mark Grueskin,
Michael S. Mandell, Robert Richie, and Joseph F. Zimmerman
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First edition — February 2006
Second edition — December 2008
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 John
B. Anderson
served in Congress as a Republican Representative from
Illinois
from 1961 to 1981. He was Chairman of the House Republican
Conference for 10 years. In 1980, he ran for President as an
Independent and won 6.6% of the national vote. He currently
a professor of law at
Nova
Southeastern
University
and is the President of the Board of Directors of The Center
for Voting and Democracy (Fair Vote) in
Washington
,
D.C.
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 Birch
Bayh
was a member of the Indiana House of Representatives from
1955 to 1963, its Speaker from 1961 to 1962, and a United
States Senator from
Indiana
from 1963 to 1980. He is currently partner in the law firm
of Venable LLP in Washington, D.C. Senator Bayh authored two
amendments to the U.S. Constitution—the 25th
Amendment on presidential and vice-presidential succession,
and the 26th Amendment lowering the voting age to
18. He also sponsored and led the efforts to adopt a federal
constitutional amendment on direct nationwide election of
the president in the 1960s and 1970s. |
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 John
Buchanan
is an ordained Baptist minister who has served churches in
Virginia
,
Tennessee
,
Alabama
and
Washington
,
D.C.
A life-long Republican, he was Alabama Republican State
Finance Director and Jefferson County Chairman prior to his
service for sixteen years as the first Republican to
represent Birmingham in the Congress in the city’s
history. A legislative consultant and public interest
advocate, he has served as Chairman of the Council for the
Advancement of Citizenship and as National Vice-Chairman of
the Republican Mainstream Committee. Presently, he is
Chairman of the Board of Managers of the Nexus Group. |
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 Tom
Campbell earned
his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics
simultaneously at the
University
of
Chicago
, a law degree from Harvard, and a Ph.D. in economics from
the
University
of
Chicago
. He served as law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron
White, a White House Fellow in the Office of the Chief of
Staff, and Executive Assistant to the U.S. Deputy Attorney
General. He was a law professor at
Stanford
University
Law
School
for 19 years, beginning in 1983. He was elected as a
California
state senator once and elected five times to represent the
Silicon Valley area of
California
in the United States House of Representatives.
Campbell
served as Director of the California Department of Finance
under Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is currently the
Bank of
America
Dean and Professor at the Haas School of Business at the
University
of
California Berkeley
. His book, Separation of Powers in Practice, published by Stanford University
Press in 2004, examines the constitutionally defined roles
and powers of the judicial, legislative, and executive
branches of government, in the context of some of
America
’s most contentious policy issues. |
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 Barry F. Fadem
is a partner in the law firm of Fadem & Associates in Lafayette, California. He specializes in all aspects of campaign and election law, and provides expert consultation in the area of initiatives and referendums. He is President of National Popular Vote.
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 Mark
Grueskin
is a shareholder at Isaacson Rosenbaum P.C. in
Denver
and chairs the firm’s Public Law and Policy practice.
In addition to practicing federal, state, and local election
law, he has been special counsel to the Colorado General
Assembly and the City and County of Denver. Previously, he
served as Legal Counsel to Governor Richard Lamm of
Colorado. |
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John R. Koza,
originator of the plan described in this book, received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Michigan in 1972. He published a board game involving electoral college strategy in 1966. From 1973 through 1987, he was co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Scientific Games Inc. where he co-invented the rub-off instant lottery ticket used by state lotteries. In the 1980s, he and attorney Barry Fadem (see above) were active in promoting adoption of lotteries by various states through the citizeninitiative process and legislative action. He has taught a course on genetic algorithms and genetic programming at Stanford University since 1988. He is currently a consulting professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He is Chair of National Popular Vote.
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 Michael
S. Mandell has been
an associate with the law firm of Perkins Coie Brown &
Bain in
Phoenix
and is currently the general counsel to the Arizona State
Senate. He received his J.D. with honors from
Arizona
State
University
, where he was an editor of the Arizona State Law Journal. |
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 Robert
Richie has been the
executive director of FairVote—The Center for Voting and
Democracy (www.fairvote.org),
a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing fair
elections, since its founding in 1992. His political
writings have appeared in many newspapers and in eight
books, including the feature essay in Whose Votes Count. He
has been a guest on C-SPAN, NBC News, National Public Radio,
CNN, FOX, and MSNBC. Richie has addressed numerous events,
including the annual conventions of the National Association
of Counties, and National Conference of State Legislatures
and drafted several pieces of federal and state legislation. |
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 Joseph
F. Zimmerman is
Professor of Political Science at the State University of
New York at
Albany
. He has authored of Interstate Cooperation: Compacts and
Administrative Agreements (2002), Interstate
Relations: The Neglected Dimension of Federalism (1996),
Contemporary American Federalism: The Growth of National
Power (1992), The Initiative: Citizen Law-Making
(1997), The Referendum: The People Decide Public Policy
(1997), and The Recall: Tribunal of the People
(1997). |
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