TS, 22NEWS
BARRY:
CONNECTICUT'S CONSIDERING A
CHANGE TO HOW ITS VOTES ARE
COUNTED
IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.
22NEWS REPORTER MIKE
MASCIADRELLI IS LIVE AT OUR
FRANKLIN COUNTY BUREAU TO
EXPLAINS HOW THE ELECTORAL
COLLEGE COULD BE IMPACTED.
MIKE:
JUST OVER THE STATE LINE,
CONNECTICUT'S CONSIDERING A BILL
THAT WOULD FORCE
THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE TO FOLLOW
THE POPULAR VOTE IN PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTIONS.
CONNECTICUT'S CONSIDERING
CHANGES TO HOW THEY VOTE FOR
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES.
SEVERAL PROPOSALS WOULD REQUIRE
THEM TO VOTE FOR WHOEVER GETS
THE
MOST VOTES NATIONWIDE.
CURRENTLY, CONNECTICUT ELECTORS
VOTE FOR WHOEVER THE PEOPLE
IN THEIR STATE VOTE FOR.
VERNETTE TIEGS, GREENFIELD:
THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE EXISTS FOR
A CHECKS AND
BALANCE ON THE POPULAR VOTE SO I
THINK THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM IS
VALUABLE.
MIKE MASCIADRELLI, WORKING FOR
YOU:
THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE WAS PUT IN
PLACE WHEN
OUR COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED AS A WAY
TO ELECT THE PRESIDENT. BUT JUST
LIKE IN CONNECTICUT,
PEOPLE HERE IN GREENFIELD ARE
DIVIDED ON WHETHER THE POPULAR
VOTE SHOULD HAVE THE
FINAL SAY.
MARIA DANIELSON, GREENFIELD:
I DON'T THINK IT'S FAIR THE WAY
THAT IT IS. I THINK
IT'S TIME TO CHANGE THE SYSTEM
SO THAT ALL OF US VOTERS HAVE AN
EQUAL SAY TO DETERMINE WHO IS
OUR
PRESIDENT.
THERE ARE 538 ELECTORS
NATIONWIDE.
IF THESE PROPOSALS PASS,
CONNECTICUT WOULD JOIN 11 OTHER
STATES, INCLUDING
MASSACHUSETTS, IN THE NATIONAL
POPULAR VOTE INTERSTATE COMPACT.
MIKE:
THE ISSUE WAS RAISED AFTER
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP WAS
ELECTED IN
NOVEMBER.
HE WON THE PRESIDENCY WITH 305
ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTES, EVEN
THOUGH
HE LOST TO CLINTON IN THE
POPULAR VOTE.
LIVE FROM THE FRANKLIN COUNTY
BUREAU, IN GREENFIELD, MIKE
