http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/01/koch-brothers-change-electoral-college-rules
Last election season, a shadowy nonprofit pumped hundreds of thousands of dollars into a campaign to change how electoral votes are counted. The group didn't disclose who was funding its efforts—a fact that Mother Jones highlighted in a story titled "Who's Paying for the GOP's Plan to Hijack the 2012 Election?"But now, thanks to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a nonpartisan government watchdog, it's clear that organizations with ties to billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch footed at least some of the bill.Each state and the District of Columbia has a certain number of electoral votes, based on their population, and they get to decide for themselves how those votes should be allotted.Currently, every state except Maine and Nebraska gives all of their electoral votes to the candidate who wins the statewide popular vote. But in 2011, GOP lawmakers in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin introduced bills that would divide electoral votes among candidates based on how many congressional districts they won.Because Republicans drew the boundaries of the districts in those states, this scheme would be almost certain to hand Republican presidential candidates the majority of their electoral votes—even if more voters cast ballots for Democrats. (Read more about how the plan would work here.) Presuming the race is close enough, this could decide the nationwide outcome.
this is the biggest failure of all gov't and courts to allow this gimmick that is clearly design to tip the scales in favor of republicans, why is there not a drive to litigate this grand theft of our votes?
2012 Americans voted for Dems to take over the house by a million plus and they knew they had no wind so they gerrymander just before the voting, clearly that was hijacking the election,
they are emboldened because those million plus voters who's vote was rendered null and void by republicans made no noise the DOJ didn't either they sat back and took it, now they are poised to do it again expecting no opposition, will Americans let them take the keys because we sure as hell didn't give them to them at least intentionally, will our law enforcement enforce?
In the case of Pennsylvania, a mysterious nonprofit called All Votes Matter spent large sums lobbying for these changes. Local officials wondered about its funding sources. "They raised an awful lot of money very quickly—$300,000 in just a few days,"Democratic Pennsylvania state Sen. Daylin Leach told Mother Jones at the time. "We're all curious where that level of funding comes from." But All Votes Matter didn't disclose its donors, nor did it have to. The group is organized as a 501(c)4 "social welfare" nonprofit, which means that it can spend money on politics while keeping its donors secret.(Such groups are not supposed to spend more than half of their budget on political causes, but IRS enforcement is slack.) Thus the public knew little about the agendas behind this effort to upend the mechanics of presidential elections.
the gov't is suppose to be of by and for the people if so why are we not privy to who is loading up for who when it comes to our political workings? this should be the number one business by this admin this year give us back our right to fair and honest elections. if we don't have that then we cannot legally have democratic elections.
