I still don't call this plan election-rigging per se. Because if congressional districts were fairly distributed, it wouldn't have any significant effect; indeed, it would arguably make the Electoral College more closely align with the Popular Vote.
But congressional districts aren't, in most places, fairly distributed. Instead, they are gerrymandered by the party in power to maximize their congressional representation. Thus, while the GOP won the majority of House seats in 2012, they actually received fewer aggregate votes nationwide than the Democratic candidates. That's primarily because the GOP held most state legislatures in 2010, when the maps got drawn.
So it's gerrymandering that's election-rigging. And what this proposal does is extend the vile influence of gerrymandering to from House elections to taint Presidential elections, too.
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Pennsylvania House Republicans Introduce Bill To Rig The 2016 Presidential Election
Earlier this week, Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus endorsed a Republican plan to rig the next presidential election to make it nearly impossible for the Democratic candidate to win …
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The crazy will win, one way or another.
It's the only chance the GOP has, but I'm confident that it, too, will fail.