What The 2012 Election Would Look Like Under The Republicans' Vote-Rigging Plan

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Republicans have a new strategy for 2016: Change the rules of presidential elections in order to swing the electoral college in the GOP's favor.

On Wednesday, Virginia's Republican-controlled legislature became one of the first to advance a bill that would allocate electoral votes by congressional district. Last week, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus endorsed pushing through similar proposals in other states with Republican legislative majorities.

The strategy would have states alter the way they translate individual votes into electors -- thereby giving Republican candidates an advantage. Had the 2012 election been apportioned in every state according to these new Republicans plans, Romney would have led Obama by at least 11 electoral votes. Here's how:

In the 2012 election, President Barack Obama defeated Mitt Romney by 126 electoral votes.



Each state has two more electoral votes than congressional districts. The most common Republican proposal -- under consideration in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan -- follows the same rules already in effect in Maine and Nebraska, which allocate the two additional votes to the winner of the statewide popular vote.

This is what the 2012 electoral map would have looked liked had each state apportioned its electors using these rules.



This is 100% UNCONSTITUTIONAL, it gives area's with less population more votes than Urban Areas. An area with 100,000 people get 1 vote and so does the Area with 6 million people.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/24/republican-vote-rigging-electoral-college_n_2546010.html

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1. If Orly Taitz can bring up bogus cases trying to bring Obama down, why can't

a group of disenfranchised voters from some of these states get together and sue for their voting rights. And I mean a BIG group of people that couldn't be ignored. They're not being represented. Especially those that were in the VA guy's district (that 20th Dem) who was in DC for the inaugural/MLK festivities.

Can't "We the people" do something rather than let the repubs run roughshod over everyone to steal the elections? They're not doing it behind people's backs and in the secret circuits of the ether now - they're blatantly doing it out in in the open and it's spreading.