“The only thing I’d change about the Electoral College system would be to allocate the votes by Congressional district, not ‘winner take all.’”
I fully concurr.
I fully concurr.
That could happen by a vote of the legislatures in each of the states. Two states (IIRC, Maine and Nebraska) already use this system. It either has not been challenged or has withstood any challenges on constitutional grounds.
The determination as to how electors are to be chosen was specifically left to the states. Nothing in the US Constitution requires that a winner-take-all system be used.
I think a couple of states already award the EC vote based upon CD winner and the two Senator votes on statewide winner. Maine and Nebraska?
I forgot to add: A “Republican form of government”, to me, means that the electors for the state are chosen by the people only of the state, not by others outside the state. Whether it’s done by winner-take-all or apportioned by congressional district, a state’s votes in the EC should be decided by the people of that state and nobody else.
I like the idea too. I have a question about that though. What would the count have been this time under that system?