Who's Paying for the GOP's Plan to Hijack the 2012 Election?

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http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/11/pennsylvania-electoral-college-all-votes-matter


Someone is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to rig the rules of the presidential election against Obama. But the source of the money is a mystery.


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In two states, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, GOP legislators have introduced bills that would change how electoral votes—a candidate needs 270 of the 538 to win the presidency—are awarded in a presidential election. Under the current system, the winner of the statewide popular vote receives all of the electoral votes from that state.

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In Pennsylvania, a secretive nonprofit group called All Votes Matter has been pushing the electoral vote scheme since May. All Votes Matter has close ties to the Pennsylvania GOP—it hired a number of former top state Senate staffers-turned-lobbyists. "It was pretty much the Senate GOP All Star Lobbying Team and Sloane," Peter DeCoursey, the bureau chief for Capitolwire, a newswire that's read religiously by Harrisburg insiders*, explained in September.

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In Wisconsin, it's even less clear who's behind the electoral college shenanigans. The Wisconsin Democratic party has alleged that the bill there, sponsored by GOP state Rep. Dan LeMahieu, was written by the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative group funded by the billionaire Koch brothers, among others. But so far, the Dems haven't been able to produce any evidence to back up their charge, and emails from LeMahieu's office Mother Jones obtained via an open records request showed no evidence of any outside involvement in the drafting of the law.
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could two of the names begin with K?

[Ship of Fools]

1. I don't think the elections will be hijacked.

I KNOW the elections will be hijacked. Better break out the armored vest.

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3. kick

nt

[Turbineguy]

2. Ultimately....

we are paying for it. But don't try and tell teabaggers that.

[EC]

4. I wonder if the feds could go after ALEC for

conspiracy to bring down the government? It does seem to have an end agenda of bringing down the government, just as Grover Norquist's wet dream is drowning it in a bathtub. Isn't that conspiracy?

[dtexdem]

5. All of us for a long time to come.

But in the short term, look to the Koch brothers as culprits.