In California, a Republican law firm with deep pockets and all the right friends in state government are set to smash California's winner-take-all system of electoral votes into a system whereby the state's 55 electoral votes are divided per election results in each of the congressional districts.

Personally, I think the winner-take-all system needs to go for all states, but if it is changed only selectively it tips the scales in favor of one side, in this case it would give the Republicans a HUGE advantage and handicap the Democrats in extreme fashion. More than any other vote tricks we know about, this is the one that could put them in the White House more than any other.

This is being done very quietly and would all but guarantee a Republican victory in 2008. What did Thomas Jefferson say about "eternal vigilance?" Like most vote-related initiatives by the Republican Party, they will steal your democracy with legal tricks, not tanks and secret police.

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