13 GOP Pennsylvania Senators Introduce New Plan To Rig The Electoral College For Republicans

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http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/02/23/1630621/13-gop-pennsylvania-senators-introduce-new-plan-to-rig-the-electoral-college-for-republicans/

Earlier this year, Republican National Committee Chair urged Republican lawmakers in states “that have been consistently blue that are fully controlled red” — i.e. blue states with Republican legislatures and governors — to enact a plan rigging the Electoral College so that it would be almost impossible for a Democrat to win the White House. Under these plans, a large chunk of blue state electoral votes would be allocated to the Republican candidate even if the Democratic presidential candidate won the state as a whole. Although some state lawmakers in key blue states such as Wisconsin or Michigan endorsed versions of this plan, the election rigging plans were widely derided as exactly what they are — cheating — and soon, even top Republicans like Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) or Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell wanted nothing to do with election rigging. The plans to rig the Electoral College appeared dead.

Except, that is, for Pennsylvania.

Gov. Tom Corbett (R-PA) was one of the earliest supporters of rigging the Electoral College, backing a plan to do so as early as 2011. Republican state Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi was one of the leading supporters of election-rigging then, and he has steadfastly refused to back down from the idea even as Republicans in other states appeared to walk away from rigging presidential elections. Late this week, Pileggi — along with a dozen other co-sponsors — introduced a new plan to rig the Electoral College votes in his blue state of Pennsylvania. Under this legislation, a large chunk of Pennsylvania’s electoral votes would be awarded to the Republican candidate even though Pennsylvania is a solid blue state that has supported the Democratic candidate for president in every election since 1992.

Of course, while the Republican election-rigging plan calls for blue states to give away electoral votes to Republicans, red states like Texas or South Carolina will continue to award 100 percent of their electors to the Republican:

[OceanEcosystem]

1. The Democrats could do the same, vice versa, couldn't they? n/t.

[TlalocW]

4. Are there any red states that are controlled by democrats?

If not, then no.

TlalocW

[JaneyVee]

5. No.

[samplegirl]

2. Made my day

we'll have a bunch of teabaggers running our country before long.

[Angry Dragon]

3. Get rid of the Electoral College, that would settle that

[socialist_n_TN]

6. It kind of makes me wonder exactly WHAT will ........

set reformist Dems off. If this doesn't do it, then they're conceding Republican rule.