Ohio’s GOP Secretary of State Already Has A Plan To Rig 2016 Election For Republicans

[Lakhota]

By Ian Millhiser and Josh Israel

Last year, Pennsylvania’s Republican Gov. Tom Corbett proposed rigging the Electoral College vote in his state through a plan that would have given the majority of the state’s electors to Romney even after President Obama carried the state. Under Corbett’s 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 state’s 20 electoral votes, despite losing the state overall by more than five points.

Corbett’s 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.

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[Lakhota]

This NaziCon idiot, Jon Husted, reminds me of Wile E. Coyote.

 

[occupied]

The guy is pretty transparent in his anti-democracy intentions but he also has painted a rather large target on his back with his antics, I do not expect his career to survive much longer.

 

[OKTexas]

I don't think any state should be winner take all, right now there are only two states that are not. Dividing the electors would force candidates to campaign in all states.

 

[AmyNation]

Candidates should be required to win both the electoral and the popular.

 

[Lakhota]

The guy is pretty transparent in his anti-democracy intentions but he also has painted a rather large target on his back with his antics, I do not expect his career to survive much longer.

I agree.

 

[rdean]

An Republicans wanted to bring democracy to Iraq and look at what they do here? You can't trust those people. They lie about everything.