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# Electoral College thievery
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/electoral-college-thievery-editor/
- Published: 2007-12-10T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T04:21:44.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Ron Lowe Santa Monica*

Why hasn’t Governor Schwarzenneger said anything about the GOP’s bogus Electoral College ballot initiative that would give Republicans a portion of California’s electoral votes (all politically and legislatively correct of course) and benefit the Republican presidential candidate in the 2008 election?

Americans didn’t learn the lesson of presidency theft by Electoral College manipulation in Bush’s 2000 victory. Now we have another chance to view up front and close the secretive and cunning underpinnings of Grand Old Party thievery.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on December 10, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/121007.pdf?ref=smdp.com)