Taking a page from Lance Armstrong’s playbook, some Republican state legislators are trying to tamper with the Electoral College to cement a permanent political advantage. They would do this by scrapping the winner-take-all rule and awarding electors by congressional district.
In practice, this would mean that a sparsely populated Republican district would have the same electoral clout as a densely populated Democratic district, so that a vote for a Republican would effectively be worth more than a vote for a Democrat.
Bloomberg’s Albert Hunt thinks the scheme is going to backfire.