[Darksheare]

So you've decided to sit this Freepathon out, eh?

Aren't you Precious.

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[ken21]

bump.

[Mr. K]

If the libtards want it, it can’t be good, so I am agin it.

[IbJensen]

Washington, D.C.=Madrid, 1936.

[Irenic]

Is this good information before I get all worked up? If this happens it IS that step too far.

[Paladin2]

Every State should have an equal vote.

[dead]

Do you think the voters in those states (of which you may be one) have an idea this has happened? Of course not

No, it won't be noticed until it actually happens and then it will be immediately rescinded by the states burned by it.

For example, when a GOP candidate loses California by 14% but wins the popular vote by .05% - all California's electoral votes will go to the GOP candidate.

Only then, will the vast majority of dimwits out there realize that they are being disenfranchised and raise the sort of outrage that will knock the house of cards down.

In fact, I would imagine any state faced with this predicament would change the law back, between the actual vote and the meeting of the electoral college.

The US Constitution does not mandate how a state should determine its electoral votes, so these moves are all legal. But a state legislature that negates the majority vote of its constituents will have hell to pay if they don't correct it immediately.

[kingu]

Blah blah blah - They’d have to re-write the constitution to do this, which would require passing Congress first, then the states ratify it. Not going to happen, I’ll save my worries for real challenges.

[PapaBear3625]

The counter-attack involves allocating electoral votes by congressional district, rather than winner-takes-all. Each state gets a number of electors equal to the number of congressmen plus the number of senators the state has. Most states give all their electors to the statewide winner. An alternate way to do it is for the winner in each congressional district to get that district's elector, and the statewide winner gets the extra two electors.

Doing it this way nullifies big-city vote fraud.

Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are considering this. Maine and Nebraska are already set up this way.