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Originally Posted by Lookin4SVX
Use popular vote to assign electoral collage. No more winner takes all "battleground states".
Each candidate should receive how ever many electors there % earned them, this is how the state of Maine does it, and all other should also.
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Maine assigns electoral votes in a two-level process.
- They award one electoral vote per congressional district to the winner of the popular vote in that district.
- They award two electoral votes to the winner of the statewide count.
My biggest problem with that method is congressional district gerrymandering. State government officials fiddle around with congressional district borders to favor members of their party. Take a look at this map to see what I'm talking about. It's unbelievable, like a Pollock painting. Zoom in on my home state of Pennsylvania to see a particularly egregious example.
EDIT: Doh! Forgot to link in the congressional district map. It's
here.