Published on Thursday, November 29, 2007 by The Independent/UK
The Plot to Rig the 2008 US Election
by Johann Hari
In the long, hot autumn of 2000, the world was shocked by the contempt for democracy shown by the Republican Party. They knew their man had lost the popular vote to Al Gore by half a million votes. They knew the majority of voters in Florida itself had pulled a lever for Gore. But they fought - amid the confetti of hanging chads - to stop the state’s votes being counted, and to ensure that the Supreme Court imposed George W Bush.
Today, that contempt for democracy is on display again. In California right now, there is a naked, out-in-the-open ploy to rig the 2008 presidential election - and it may succeed.
Except in Maine and Nebraska, the winner of the popular vote within a state gets all that states electoral college votes. The repukes are trying to change that in just one state - California. California has awarded the Democrat presidential candidate it's 55 electoral votes since 1988. And the repukes, being well aware of their chances (or lack thereof perhaps) in '08, once again want to scam the United States and give us another 4 years of repressive, xenephobic fascist leadership (or lack thereof!)
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