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By Ian Millhiser and Josh Israel
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.
More: Ohio's GOP Secretary of State Already Has A Plan To Rig The 2016 Election For Republicans | ThinkProgress