New Hampshire Bill to Let Each U.S. House District Elect its Own Presidential Elector

Posted on by January 13, 2025

New Hampshire Senator Bill Gannon has introduced SB 11, to let each U.S. House district elect its own presidential elector. Gannon is chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and has already scheduled a hearing on the bill. Because the bill is perceived to help Republican presidential candidates, and because both houses of the legislature have Republican majorities, the bill is likely to pass.

If it had been law in 2016, Donald Trump would have won one presidential elector from New Hampshire, although there would have been no split electoral slate in 2020 nor 2024. Thanks to Tony Roza for this news. Maine and Nebraska are currently the only states that let each U.S. House district choose its own elector.

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New Hampshire Bill to Let Each U.S. House District Elect its Own Presidential Elector — 46 Comments

  1. If only legal votes were counted Trump would have won New Hampshire outright all three elections.

  3. Fred, and O.D.R., if you were applying for a job that requires analytic skills, would you make statements like that? Such statements persuade no one because they appear driven by emotion, not reality. If you wanted to be a scientist, or a researcher, I think you would try to rise to a more elevated attempt.

  4. another gerrymander machination.

    abolish the minority rule EC
    ——-
    uniform definition of elector-voter in ALL of the USA

    PR
    APPV
    TOTSOP

  5. Look at all of the fraud in 2020. Several investigations were done but corrupt Democrats and anti-Trump deep staters refused to prosecute and throw out the illegal ballots.

    There was also fraud in 2024.

  6. https://electionlawblog.org/?p=148132

    TRUMP *NATIONAL EMERGENCY* COMING – MILITARY ATTACKS ON USA CIVILIANS ???

    19 APR 2025 = 250 YEARS FROM 19 APR 1775 — DAY 1 OF AM REV WAR

    BRIT MILITARY ATTACKS ON MASS CIVILIANS – RESPONSE – LEAD BULLETS FROM CIVILIANS AND MASS MILITIA [MINUTE MEN] = DEAD BRIT MILITARY

    BATTLES OF LEXINGTON AND CONCORD – LATER USA GEN G. WASHINGTON AT SIEGE OF BOSTON AND ITS LATER LIBERATION AND LATER USA-FRANCE VICTORY AT YORKTOWN VA 19 OCT 1781 — 6.5 YEARS AFTER SUCH DAY 1.

    ONE RESULT – 2 AMDT IN USA CONST AND SAME IN MANY EARLY STATE CONSTS.

  7. Richard Winger openly supports fraudulent votes. He’s said so many times all votes should count no matter what.

  10. I am in fact a professional researcher. Why wouldn’t I make true statements which are in fact based on both research and reality?

  16. If we didn’t have a one corpse per ticket policy we’d definitely consider running both as a team. One could be on top in half the states and the other one in the other half or something.

  21. DFR–

    ONE 14-1 AMDT CITIZEN – ONE VOTE MAX

    exact pr needed ???

    voting power of rep = final votes received
    —
    ALSO LOSER VOTES TO AN ELECTED REP VIA PRE-ELECTION CANDIDATE RANK ORDER LISTS OF ALL OTHER CANDS.

  29. Single presidential elector districts should also include the two that every state currently has “at large” for those allotted for US Senators. So New Hampshire, like West Virginia, should have four distinct PE districts. As I’ve mentioned previously, this is easy to do with states that currently have two US Representatives (HI, ID, ME, MO, NH, RI, WV) by simply dividing them in half. I’m sure there will be plenty of groans, debate, and controversy surrounding the gerrymandering of doing this for the other states.

    The next logical step is to have the Presidential Elector candidates themselves running in their respective individual PE districts instead of having the party nominees as placeholders for them. This is as the Framers intended whereby the eventual US President wouldn’t have been doing any campaigning or making promises and wouldn’t owe favors to anyone.

  31. @ D. Frank Robinson:

    Self-districting can be done on election day by the voters themselves by having multi-member districts in which an alternative voting method, such as approval, ranked-choice, proportional or cumulative voting is used. The voters create the districts with their very votes, as some will prefer candidates that are “close to home” – creating virtual geographic districts, and others will prefer philosophically acceptable candidates from wherever – creating other, virtual at-large districts.

  34. Multimember districts are a bad idea. They give politicians more opportunities to point fingers instead of providing constituent services, make candidate research more complicated, make vote counting more complicated, and thus make fraud easier. The alternative voting methods Mr. Ziobro cites also enable fraud by making vote counting more complicated and further enable organized groups to manipulate elections by bullet voting and other strategies various voters don’t grasp.

    Make elections simpler through standing count, one vote in one election per year, not more complicated.

  36. New Hampshire itself has many multi-member districts in its legislature. In a small state with 400 reps in its state house, its hard to image how there could NOT be multi member districts.

    And amazingly enough, New Hampshire doesn’t have much fraud or corruption. Just too many reps to bribe.

  37. G math 001 —

    1/2 or less votes x 1/2 seats = 1/4 or less control = OLIGARCHY WITH TYRANT BOSS MONARCHS – SEE MONSTERS IN DEVIL CITY ESP

    —-
    folks poring into NH – to avoid bribes/threats ???

    bills paper re-cycled at least 10 times for 400 state reps ???
    —
    pr
    appv
    totsop

  38. Why would that be hard to imagine? Maine has about the same population as New Hampshire, and over 400 towns which do not overlap.

    NH has one legislator per about 3,000 people. The whole country is made up of electoral districts with a smaller average population – voting precincts.

    So what’s the problem?

  39. At the time of the American Revolution there were about 3 million people in the 13 united States of whom the majority were not voters – women, slaves, under 21, non property owners, Indians, immigrant non citizens etc. Supposing the average legislative lower chamber had a hundred representatives, that’s only a few hundred voters in an average state legislators district.

    Were multimember districts the norm? My understanding is they were not.

  41. https://electionlawblog.org/?p=148151

    Is PR the panacea?
    January 14, 2025, 9:39 am NED FOLEY

    The New York Times has a big piece posted this morning by Jesse Wegman and Lee Drutman advocating for using proportional representation (PR) to elect members of the federal House of Representatives (and expanding the size of the House to accommodate PR).

    The piece is definitely worth a read; it has some very snazzy graphics.

    But to my mind [Foley] it oversells PR as the solution for our nation’s currently dysfunctional democracy.
    —
    HAS LINK TO FREE BOOK ABOUT ELECTION REFORMS

    GOOD LUCK — FELON INCUMBENTS LOVE O-N-L-Y THE ROTTED SYSTEMS THAT PUT/KEEP THEM IN P-O-W-E-R

    IE 1860 ANTI-DEMOCRACY MINORITY RULE GERRYMANDER SYSTEMS KEPT REGARDLESS OF 750,000 DEAD IN 1861-1866

    — ESP 2 USA SENS PER STATE — CHIEF CAUSE OF THE CIVIL WAR- FREE/SLAVE STATE MACHINATIONS 1789-1861

    PR had been around since 1840s

  42. Puerto Rico has been around long before the 1840s you dumbshit.

    New York Times is FAKE NEWS.

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