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Republicans Aren't Rigging the Electoral College
It's legal for Republicans to change the Electoral College in Ohio and Michigan to help their presidential candidates. It's just not in their interest.
As if you had a choice.
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No, Republicans aren't going to use their triumphs in state legislative and governor's races to rig the Electoral College. Let’s try to kill this one off right away -- and not just because, as Dave Weigel reports at Bloomberg Politics, Republicans don't seem to have much interest in it, aside from a single National Review blog post.
There are three things to know about rigging the Electoral College.