Three New Hampshire Republican legislators have introduced HB 231, which would provide that each of the state’s two U.S. House districts would elect their own presidential elector. If this bill had been in effect in the 2016 election, Donald Trump would have received one electoral vote from New Hampshire. Thanks to Darryl Perry for this news.
Interesting. I for one am in favor of states assigning their electoral votes proportional to the popular vote each candidate gets. The main issue would be rounding/rounding errors, but a compromise could probably be worked out if this idea ever got any traction.
Both major gangs will probably try to have a TOTAL gerrymander rigging of the Electoral College in the marginal States.
1/2 or less votes x gerrymander areas (States, DC, US Rep districts or OTHER rigged E.C. special gerrymander districts)
= 1/4 or less CONTROL = one more HACK minority rule Prez/VP combo.
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SAVE Democracy
1. Uniform definition of Elector-Voter in ALL of the USA
2. P.R.
3. Nonpartisan App.V.
Joshua, that’s why you use single transferable, or approval voting with the D’Hondt method for a proportional EC. There’s no rounding to do, since it’s based on actual vote totals, not percentages.
Richard Winger’s excellent BAN reports are diminished by the fantasies, and quite frankly, idiocy, of most of the comments in the comment threads here.
Sad.
Define “most” there Don.
My post above —
gerrymander areas having a bare majority of the Electoral College Votes — currently 538 — magic 270 to elect a HACK Prez/VP via the 12th Amdt.
JH – 80%
When Maine switched to splitting its electoral votes, the original proposal would have created four electoral districts. This would have been more consistent with the practice in the early 19th Century. In committee it got switched to the two + two current version.
Alexander Hamilton’s proposal for the 12th Amendment would have created electoral districts with one elector elected from each one. Had this been enacted, it is likely we would be electing individual electors and there would be no notion of the national popular vote.
It would make more sense in a state like New Hampshire to either have four electoral districts, or to award two electors in each CD.
Proportional allocation does not work well with four electors, since to gain a 3:1 margin, a party needs 60% of the two-party vote if D’Hondt is used. If that happens, it will probably be a national blowout, or the state has such single-party dominance it won’t matter that much.
A better change would be to increase the number of electors, and give Congress time, place, manner authority over their election, and give the electors direct authority to determine the President.
How many nation-State regimes manage to survive by having the top nation-State executive officers be elected by ALL of the People Electors-Voters — esp. in NON-partisan elections ???
Gee – are ALL 50 State governors (and other officers – Attorney Generals, Secretaries of State, etc.) elected at large by the People Electors-Voters in all such States — and ALL such States manage to survive ???
Again – The 1787 USA Const is a LATE DARK AGE document
— esp. regarding ALL election structure stuff
— due to the ANTI-Democracy HACKS from the small and slave States in the 1787 top secret Fed. Convention
— esp. the SLAVE States getting stuff like the Art. I, Sec. 2 3/5 math for USA H. Reps – also affecting the Art. II, Sec. 1 Prez E.C. math and the fugitive slave clause in Art. IV.
It took about 750,000 DEAD in 1861-1865 to get rid of the slavery related stuff — 13th Amdt,, 14th Amdt, Sec. 2, 15th Amdt, Sec. 1.
Where is the New Age Union Army/Navy to liberate ALL States from the New Age gerrymander oligarchs ???