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When ALEC, the right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council, met in July 2017, it discussed two structural reforms to create a permanent Republican majority. The first was restoring the appointment of US Senators by state legislatures by repealing the Seventeenth Amendment. (After November 2016, the GOP held both chambers in thirty-two states, which, if such a repeal were law, would mean they would have sixty-four senators.) As far-fetched as that sounds, ALEC has been pushing red states to pass legislation calling for a federal Article Five constitutional convention, where such a proposal could be raised. So far, twenty-seven states out of the thirty-four states needed have passed resolutions for that convention.

A more likely near-term threat is gerrymandering the Electoral College. Republicans could do that by replacing the statewide winner-winner-take-all system with awarding delegates by House district. If that were law in Virginia, where a bill was introduced but did not pass in 2017, the state’s eleven Electoral College votes would not have gone to Clinton; Trump carried six of its House districts. Legislation to do that was proposed in a few states in early 2017, but did not go anywhere.

Too few people pay attention to these potential power grabs.

Steven Rosenfeld. Democracy Betrayed: How Superdelegates, Redistricting, Party Insiders, and the Electoral College Rigged the 2016 Election. Skyhorse Publishing/Hot Books. (c) 2018.