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    Default How To Rig An Election--Part Deux

    Ahhhh it's the year 2000 all over again...Brought to you by the Giuliani campaign. http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/29/5507/

    (snip)To understand how this works, we have to roam back to the 18th century.... Back then, America’s founding fathers decided not to introduce a system where US presidents would be directly elected, with the votes totted up in Washington, DC, and the winner being the man with the most. Instead, they chose a complex system called the electoral college. This stipulates that American citizens do not vote directly for a president. Instead, they technically vote for 539 state-wide “electors”, who then gather six weeks after the election to pick the President.

    It is the worst part of the Constitution, producing perverse results again and again. On four occasions there has been such a big gap between the national popular vote and the state-by-state electoral college votes that the guy with fewer real supporters in the country got to be President. It happened in 1824, 1876, 1888 and - most tragically for the world - in 2000.

    Today, the Republicans are trying to exploit the discontent with the electoral college among Americans in a way that would rig the system in their favour.
    The Republicans want to change this - but in only one Democrat-leaning state. They have launched a campaign called California Counts, and they are trying to secure a state-wide referendum in June to implement their plan. They want California’s electoral votes to be divvied up not on a big state-wide basis, but according to the much smaller congressional districts. The practical result? Instead of all the state’s 54 electoral college votes going to the Democratic candidate, around 20 would go to the Republicans.
    If this was being done in every state, everywhere, it would be an improvement. California’s forgotten Republicans would be represented in the electoral college, and so would Texas’s forgotten Democrats. But by doing it in California alone, they are simply giving the Republicans a massive electoral gift. Suddenly it would be extremely hard for a Democrat ever to win the White House; they would need a landslide victory everywhere else to counter this vast structural imbalance against them on the West Coast.

    There is a real risk they could succeed. They are close to getting the number of signatures they need to secure a referendum in June. (The Los Angeles Downtown News claims to have witnessed signature-gatherers offering homeless people food in return for signing.) (snip)
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    Default Re: How To Rig An Election--Part Deux

    hey, it's a step closer to true democracy, right ??? Actually, you can relax because there is zero chance this could ever garner a majority in a California statewide election ... because mainstream news media will be trumpeting the issue to California's poor and illegal alien Democratic voters.

    Hmmm, isn't allowing illegal aliens to vote also rigging elections ? Isn't using US census figures which include illegal aliens as a basis for assigning electoral vote counts to the individual states also rigging elections ? Nope, can't be, because the Democrats are doing it not the Republicans !

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    I've always thought the vote that mattered the most is the senatorial vote. individual votes are acknowledged here in this case, as opposed to presidential votes.
    Yea so electorial votes are an easy and valid way to manipulate the voting system, and the constitution also provides flexibility of this power.
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