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Fire Walk With Me

(38,893 posts)
Sat Jan 26, 2013, 06:19 PM Jan 2013

ALEC, the national popular vote, and GOP electoral college rigging:

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#ALEC, the national popular vote, and GOP electoral college rigging:
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Retweeted by Michael Buell

ALEC Has Opposed "Popular Vote" Efforts Which Would Protect Against Partisan Rigging of Electoral College

http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/01/11951/alec-has-opposed-popular-vote-efforts-which-would-protect-against-partisan-riggin

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has actively lobbied against state plans to implement a national popular vote for president, urging state legislators to preserve the Electoral College -- which GOP legislators are now trying to rig to ensure the the next president is a Republican. In late 2011, ALEC officially changed its policy on the Electoral College to implicitly support allocating electoral votes by congressional district.

Republican leaders, including Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus, have been criticized for recent proposals to allocate electoral votes according to the victor in each Congressional district, rather than according to the winner-take-all system. This change would significantly benefit the GOP's presidential chances, in part because Republicans were able to re-draw Congressional districts to favor their party after the 2010 elections.

In Virginia, where the Republican-led legislature has taken the first step toward reallocating the state's electoral votes, Mitt Romney would have garnered nine of Virginia's electoral votes in 2012, and Obama would have won four -- despite Obama beating Romney by 150,000 votes and four percentage points in the state as a whole.

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ALEC, the national popular vote, and GOP electoral college rigging: (Original Post) Fire Walk With Me Jan 2013 OP
For a long time I resisted the idea but it's time for national vote to determine the PTOS. yourout Jan 2013 #1
We May Have Won Our Last Presidential Election AndyTiedye Jan 2013 #2

yourout

(8,075 posts)
1. For a long time I resisted the idea but it's time for national vote to determine the PTOS.
Sat Jan 26, 2013, 06:28 PM
Jan 2013

Much harder for someone to swing a national election fraudulently if popular vote is used instead of the electoral college.

In our current system one corrupted precinct has a much better chance of giving us BushIII.

AndyTiedye

(23,533 posts)
2. We May Have Won Our Last Presidential Election
Sat Jan 26, 2013, 08:45 PM
Jan 2013

If this goes forward in all the swing states that they control, we will never win another Presidential election.

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