Because the GOP cannot win the Presidency honestly, they are turning to state legislatures to change the rules so they can fix the outcome in their favor.
First the new GOP majorities in state legislatures across the United States came for control of Congress, and using the power of drawing Congressional maps they secured a GOP majority in the House of Representatives even though Democratic candidates for Congress receivedover 500,000 more votes than Republicans did.
Miffed at the outcome of the President Obama’s victory, now GOP leadership are looking to change the rules to allocate how Electoral Votes are counted—rigging the outcome of the Presidential election and disentrancing the will of American voters.
RNC Party Chair Reince Preibus has now thrown his support behind a schemeto “change the way [battle ground states] allocate their Electoral College votes."
First reported by the National Journal, GOP operatives are looking to change how Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin—states with GOP controlled legislatures and governorships but voted for President Obama in 2008 and 2012—allocate their Electoral College votes, making it easier for a GOP candidate to win an Electoral College majority but lose the popular vote.
Democrats are calling this scheme “an obscene power grab."“This is the sort of thing that, you know, someone like Robert Mugabe does in Zimbabwe - they fix elections,” saidPennsylvania Democratic State Senator Daylin Leach. “In America, we don't fix elections.”
Reposted from DLCC.org.
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