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I'll disagree with TP here, though, in that the scheme itself (allocate out ECVs by congressional district, with the senatorial ECVs going to the statewide winner) is not "rigged" — but the gerrymandered congressional districts are that would go … Continue reading “Ohio and the Electoral College”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,347],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-voting-rights"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31297,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/09\/planning-for-2016.html","url_meta":{"origin":31517,"position":0},"title":"Planning for 2016","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 9-Nov-12 8:59am","format":false,"excerpt":"I do not call this \"rigging the election* as it's not only perfectly legal but even, on the face of it, defensible. \u00a0But it is game-playing, and it is a concern for other reasons.The winner-takes-all nature of most electoral college challenges in US means that a slight advantage in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30821,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/24\/the-electoral-college-everyones-favorite-election-year-complaint.html","url_meta":{"origin":31517,"position":1},"title":"The Electoral College: Everyone’s Favorite Election Year Complaint","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 24-Oct-12 8:53am","format":false,"excerpt":"Every four years the US gets into a big internal debate (at least in some circles) about the Electoral College and how it distorts the system from a pure, fine democracy into safe states, swing states, and the potential for winning the popular vote but not the electoral vote. 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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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":136290,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/07\/hacking-the-electoral-college.html","url_meta":{"origin":31517,"position":3},"title":"Hacking the Electoral College","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 7-May-18 8:05am","format":false,"excerpt":"Connecticut is joining a coalition of other states trying to bypass the zaniness of the Electoral College, which has led to US presidents being elected even though they lost the popular vote. 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