Eegore wrote on 10/28/20 at 08:12:41:
... Right now it is a situation of tallying the votes in one State and then allocating the Electoral votes towards the candidate that received the most votes in that State. ...
That is the way it is in 48 States. Not all.
Each State can choose how to do it.
To make it the way 48 States deal with their Electorates,
and give the entire State, to the way of a popular recorded National vote,
is nothing more that usurping the Constitution, and a fast path to Socialism.
Electoral votes were made on the believes, that the people in the Country are just dumb bumpkins, and the people in the city are the smart ones, so they should be the ones to decide.
THAT ‘IDEA’, while once, could have been, in certain areas, possibly true,
is no longer true.Electoral Collage Voting System.
Each District in a state has 1 vote.
The entire State has 2 votes.
In 48 States, if the State votes one way, All the votes of All the Districts will be recorded the same way.
Example, Mn has 8, ‘Districts’, where the vote in each District is recorded.
in 2016; 5 districts voted R, 3 districts voted D, the State voted D
The 3 districts consisted of the the most densely populated areas in Minn.
So Minn Electoral vote was 5 for Trump, and 5 for Clinton.
Because the population of 3 of the very densely Districts, was a bit more than votes of the 5 Districts, the entire State went Clinton.
Effectively nullifying the majority of people, in 5 Districts in Minn.
Minn should have been 5 Electoral Votes for Trump and 5 for Clinton.
AS CALF SHOULD HAVE BEEN 20 FOR TRUMP AND 35 FOR CLINTON.
Say the States of N.D. S.D. ID, etc.. voted for one party,
and the States like FL, CA, NY, etc, voted for another.
Now, in ENTIRE States, the Vote just don’t matter !
Used to be, ‘just,’ the vote of, entire Districts, didn’t matter.Throwing AWAY, the Majority of the Entire population, of a State’s Vote.
Begs the question of,
WHY is that State Paying a Tax,
and Not having any Representation !
...a State allocating all their electoral votes to the candidate with the most overall national votes... NO