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The Electoral College: Keep or Replace? A Soho Forum Debate
The Soho Forum Debates
The Importance of National Popular Vote
If you reject national popular vote, there is no reason to reject the proposal I want to give you right now. That proposal says, keep the allocation of electoral votes as it is, but allocate those electoral votes proportionally at the state level fractionally. In Montana, if a Democrat got 35.4% of the vote, the popular vote, the Democrat would get 1.062 electoral votes. So what that does is every means that every place you compete, you have a chance to get an electoral vote. Every state is in play because every state vote would count and the president would care about votes from everywhere.
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