Salon.com > Charles W. Carrico http://www.salon.com Mon, 20 May 2013 19:17:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Virginia Republicans move forward with mass disenfranchisement http://www.salon.com/2013/01/23/virginia_republicans_move_forward_with_mass_disenfranchisement/ http://www.salon.com/2013/01/23/virginia_republicans_move_forward_with_mass_disenfranchisement/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:49:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13180126 The American Prospect This morning, I wrote on an emerging Republican plan—in swing states won by President Obama—to rig presidential elections by awarding electoral votes to the winner of the most congressional districts. Because Democratic voters tend to cluster in highly-populated urban areas, and Republican voters tend to reside in more sparsely populated regions, this makes land the key variable in elections—to win the majority of a state’s electoral votes, your voters will have to occupy the most geographic space.

In addition to disenfranchising voters in dense areas, this would end the principle of “one person, one vote.” If Ohio operated under this scheme, for example, Obama would have received just 22 percent of the electoral votes, despite winning 52 percent of the popular vote in the state.

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