Some Republicans remain unconvinced. "At first blush, national popular vote makes perfect sense,'' said Rep. Laura Devlin, R-Fairfield and the ranking member of the committee. "Why shouldn't every vote count the way it does in every other election?" But she said the more research she did, she concluded that such a system has too many flaws. "Our Founding Fathers didn't randomly select this...based on what they knew from studying history, a pure democracy in terms of vote, could create more issues and there was a lot of thought an negotiation that went into the electoral college."