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It is no secret that
part of the Republican strategy is to ‘game’ the system, use legal tactics
of dubious ethical content to thwart the will of voters and create Republican
victories where they are not warranted.
The mainstay of this strategy is to change the way electoral college
votes are cast in Democratic states.
Republicans would
change the rules in Democratic states where they control the legislature by
moving from a winner take all system to one where electoral votes are split up
on a Congressional District basis. This
would allow Republicans to win some electoral votes in states like Pennsylvania , Michigan , Wisconsin , Ohio
and others that are fairly reliable Democratic states. Of course, they would not change the rules in
states like Texas ,
where a statewide Republican win is assured.
In a preview of the
strategy Republican state senators in Virginia snuck in a provision in a bill to
redistrict the state senate so that they would probably gain another seat. How did they get this passed when the state
senate is evenly divided? Easy, they
waited until a Democratic state
senator was out of the office and boom, passed the measure.
The revised plan cleared the Senate on a party-line vote of
20-19. Missing this afternoon was Sen. Henry L. Marsh III, D-Richmond, who was
in Washington
The law now goes
to the House of Delegates where Republicans have the votes to pass the
bill. So unless the Republican Governor
intervenes, and he almost certainly will not, Republicans will have hijacked a
state senate seat to improve their chances of controlling the state senate
after the next election.
So why would anybody trust Republicans at any level
of government? No one know the answer to
that.
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