On September 24, the Michigan Senate Elections & Government Reform Committee took testimony on three bills that would alter the electoral college. SB 489 would give each U.S. House district its own elector. SB 197 would award electors in proportion to the popular vote within the state. SB 88 is the National Popular Vote Plan. See this story.
How many DO or DIE COMMAND ORDERS from the Devil City Elephant HQ to RIG the gerrymander Electoral College even more ???
Gee — how many current Elephant gerrymander Reps — and gerrymander Rep. districts won by Romney in 2012 ???
STOP Civil WAR II from starting — which has been building esp. since the 1964 election.
ABOLISH the super time bomb Electoral College.
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P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
Allocation of EC votes by CD has two undesired effects.
1) Encourages national campaigns to further focus their efforts in the general campaign to only those EC votes which are “in play.” Hasn’t the current EC system done enough to effectively disenfranchise millions of voters across the country?
2) Makes electoral fraud even more practicable by enabling fewer election officials to practice the kind of shady, and often illegal methods of swinging results in their favor. Think Ohio 2004 on a more local scale, but with the same anti-democratic effect. And don’t accept the specious argument that a national popular vote would have the same effect. Any political operative inclined to perpetrate electoral fraud would opt to work at a local level…fewer people involved with much greater potential effect on the desired result of electing a favored candidate for president.
That this is being pushed by the anti-democratic Republican Party should be all you need to know about this sham.