Election-rigging isn’t just fodder for movies and primetime TV dramas anymore: It’s coming to a state
near you. As if you didn’t need more
reasons to hate the Electoral College…
If this plan is executed, Electoral College votes would be divvied up by the number of congressional districts won by the candidate instead of the current winner-takes-all format that grants the total number of Electoral College votes to the candidate who wins that state’s popular vote. After the successful gerrymandering of congressional districts to keep firm control of the House of Representatives in the Republican majority’s hands, states with highly “blue,” Democratic urban centers that are outnumbered by several rural “red,” Republican districts would give the majority of those states’ votes over to Republicans.
This sour-grapes tactic of rigging the Electoral College is currently being considered by several Republican-dominated state legislatures. These are the six most likely targets for such heinous Electoral College reform:
While the Electoral College needs to be reformed — if not outright abolished — to better reflect the will of the popular vote, using such strategies of dubious legality is a serious threat to an already money-besieged American democratic process.
Tired of seeing your vote diluted by big money super PACs and dirty political tricks? Then it’s time to let your congressional representative know that we won’t stand for this outright theft of the electoral process. It may be flawed, but it’s the only one we’ve got.
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This Is How You Steal An Election
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Congressional representatives are not responsible for how we elect the President.
ReplyDeleteThe U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly characterized the authority of the state legislatures over the manner of awarding their electoral votes as "plenary" and "exclusive."
The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in the country.
Every vote, everywhere, would be politically relevant and equal in every presidential election. No more distorting and divisive red and blue state maps of pre-determined outcomes. There would no longer be a handful of 'battleground' states where voters and policies are more important than those of the voters in 80%+ of the states that have just been 'spectators' and ignored after the conventions.
The National Popular Vote bill would take effect when enacted by states with a majority of the electoral votes—270 of 538.
All of the presidential electors from the enacting states will be supporters of the presidential candidate receiving the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC)—thereby guaranteeing that candidate with an Electoral College majority.
The bill has passed 33 state legislative chambers in 22 rural, small, medium, large, red, blue, and purple states with 250 electoral votes. The bill has been enacted by 11 jurisdictions with 165 electoral votes – 61% of the 270 necessary to go into effect.
http://www.NationalPopularVote.com