Your task today is to take the results of the 2000 Presidential Election and re-calculate them based on a set of new rules.

It would be most timely to use the proposed California amendment. However, it would be awfully time consuming for you to find the results of each of the country's 435 Congressional districts.

Instead, you should use the rules of Colorado's "Amendment 36."

First, you need to find the 2000 Presidential Election results. With those results in hand, you should know the proportion of the popular vote that each candidate got in each state.

The rules of Amendment 36 state that the Electoral Votes will be divided according to the proportion of the popular vote. Since both Bush and Gore received 49% of the popular vote in Florida, each candidate will receive 49% of the Electoral Votes.

The rules for rounding off partial votes in the amendment are fairly complicated. You are free to invent your own rules, with the following conditions.

• A state must cast all of its alotted votes
• A state cannot cast more than its alotted votes
• No candidate can receive a partial vote; only whole votes

When you tally up the votes, you should have a total of 538 votes cast.

You may find it useful to use the data sheet attached to this page. Alternatively, you can create a spreadsheet to store the data and use that to calculate the votes and the winner.