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Related: About this forumOhio’s GOP Secretary of State Already Has A Plan To Rig The 2016 Election For Republicans
Ohios GOP Secretary of State Already Has A Plan To Rig The 2016 Election For Republicans
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/11/09/1169761/ohios-gop-secretary-of-state-already-has-a-plan-to-rig-the-2016-election-for-republicans/
Last year, Pennsylvanias Republican Gov. Tom Corbett proposed rigging the Electoral College vote in his state through a plan that would have given the majority of the states electors to Romney even after President Obama carried the state. Under Corbetts plan, the winner of each congressional district within Pennsylvania would receive a single electoral vote, and the overall winner of the state would receive an additional two electoral votes. Had this plan been in place last Tuesday, Mitt Romney would likely have won 13 of the states 20 electoral votes, despite losing the state overall by more than five points.
Corbetts election-rigging plan died, largely because Republican members of Congress in Pennsylvania feared that it would cause the Obama campaign to shift resources into their districts and endanger their own chances of being reelected. Now, however, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted (R) who spent much of 2012 inventing ways to prevent pro-Obama votes from being cast or counted wants to revive this election rigging scheme. According to the Ohio political blog Plunderbund, .....
Corbetts election-rigging plan died, largely because Republican members of Congress in Pennsylvania feared that it would cause the Obama campaign to shift resources into their districts and endanger their own chances of being reelected. Now, however, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted (R) who spent much of 2012 inventing ways to prevent pro-Obama votes from being cast or counted wants to revive this election rigging scheme. According to the Ohio political blog Plunderbund, .....
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Ohio’s GOP Secretary of State Already Has A Plan To Rig The 2016 Election For Republicans (Original Post)
Coyotl
Nov 2012
OP
The Republicans have no morals. Even though Corbett didn't get his way with the, electoral votes,
Dark n Stormy Knight
Nov 2012
#2
I really do hope so. We don't need people in power who can't get elected except by cheating.
Dark n Stormy Knight
Nov 2012
#4
Tigress DEM
(7,887 posts)1. How do you recall or depose a Sec of State who is OUT OF CONTROL?
Dark n Stormy Knight
(10,031 posts)2. The Republicans have no morals. Even though Corbett didn't get his way with the, electoral votes,
his underhanded gerrymandering splattered blood red all over the state map. Thieving bastards.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)3. This story/move will add fuel to the post-gerrymandering backlash.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(10,031 posts)4. I really do hope so. We don't need people in power who can't get elected except by cheating.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)5. Big K & R to remind us to NEVER LET UP
because they sure don't!