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skip fox

(19,359 posts)
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 03:49 PM Feb 2013

Vote-rigging in PA, WI. MI, and elsewhere. What can stop it??? What can we do now?

What might counter the Republican's plan to reward electoral votes according to jerry-mandered districts?

What is (are) our best hope(s) if this happens:

1. 2014 elections will drive Rep. state lawmakers out of office? (Frankly, I don't see this happening.)

2. The courts? I don't know since two states award electoral votes in this fashion already. But the Republican drawn districts that disallow Democrats an equal share in the electoral votes even if the Democrats win the state might trigger some Constitutional legal action. Is that so? What laws might be violated?

3. Some Republicans like Paul Ryan object to splitting the electoral votes because it makes their states less important in presidential campaigns. But it this important enough to dissuade the vote-riggers?

4. Some Republicans object on more moral grounds. But whenever has this dissuaded Republicans from doing something in the past 20 years?


Is there anything else. Are there ignored issues and considerations in the 4 listed above?


(I'm very worried about this and just because it might not affect Hilary if she runs in 2016--due her popularity--does not mean that we need not confront it aggressively at present.)

What else can be done? Anything???

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Vote-rigging in PA, WI. MI, and elsewhere. What can stop it??? What can we do now? (Original Post) skip fox Feb 2013 OP
Not sure if Rick Snyder will sign it into law in MI. longship Feb 2013 #1
and Georgia. ecstatic Feb 2013 #2

longship

(40,416 posts)
1. Not sure if Rick Snyder will sign it into law in MI.
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 03:58 PM
Feb 2013

He ran as a moderate Republican, which Michigan has a fairly long history of supporting -- Romney and, especially, Millikan. But he campaigned against right-to-work and then signed that stink into law.

I don't trust him. I think he's a liar, a stealth in our midst.

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