By Ian Millhiser
Yesterday, Virginia Republicans took the first step to move a GOP plan to rig the Electoral College forward in that state. Similar plans are under consideration in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
The Republican election rigging plan targets blue states that President Obama won in 2008 and 2012,
and changes the way they allocate electoral votes to give many of these
votes away for free to the Republican candidate for president. Under
the Republican Plan, most electoral votes will be allocated to the
winner of individual Congressional districts, rather than to the winner
of the state as a whole. Because the Republican Plan would be
implemented in states that are heavily gerrymandered to favor
Republicans, the resulting maps would all but guarantee that the
Republican would win a majority of each state’s electoral votes, even if
the Democratic candidate wins the state as a whole.
Today, the Center for American Progress Action Fund released a white paper detailing how this Republican election-rigging plan works
— including this rather striking visual demonstration of just how
effectively Republicans gerrymandered six states that are likely targets
of their plan:
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