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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
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,
Husteds solution to this perceived problem of Democrats and the national media picking on him? He says we should make Ohio less important in the election by dividing up our electoral votes by Congressional district.
This is huge and should raise giant red flags. Under the current winner-take-all system, Obama won all 18 of Ohios electoral votes. Under Husteds plan, 12 of those 18 electoral votes would be handed to Mitt Romney, the popular vote loser.
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Full article here: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/11/09/1169761/ohios-gop-secretary-of-state-already-has-a-plan-to-rig-the-2016-election-for-republicans/
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Ohio’s GOP Secretary of State Already Has A Plan To Rig The 2016 Election For Republicans (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Nov 2012
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DonViejo
(60,536 posts)1. Link for the article?.....
Husted has to get re-elected before he can implement any plans. I think that might be kind of tough
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)3. Added link to OP, sorry about that :) n/t
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)4. No problem! Thanks! :) n/t
NeverEnuff
(147 posts)2. Husted
Husted will not survive the election of 2014.
Cha
(297,446 posts)5. Get rid of his ass and kasich's in 2014.. problem solved.
I here and now vow to work on that.
Cha
(297,446 posts)9. Thank you! And, I vow to work on the Mid-Terms..plus helping the Dems
in Congress up to and beyond that point in time.
[font size=21pts] [font color=blue]YES WE! CAN[/font][/font]
tarheelsunc
(2,117 posts)7. Get Strickland re-elected as governor, and put Nina Turner up for SOS
Marsala
(2,090 posts)8. Technically, any state legislature can pick ALL the state's electors by any method they want
The Republicans might try that if they got really desperate, but the backlash would destroy them.
ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)10. I thought that this rigging was a thing of the past.
IT DIDN'T WORK
cherish44
(2,566 posts)11. Nah Ohio will kick him out
The Democrats are mad at him because he tried to rig the election and the Republicans are mad because he failed at it.