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    End winner take all in the electoral college and let the true voice of the people be heard.

    5,187,019 Californians live in rural areas. 1,366,760 New Yorkers live in rural areas. Now, because of statewide winner-take-all laws for awarding electors, minority party voters in the states don’t matter. California and New York state together would not dominate the choice of President under...
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    End winner take all in the electoral college and let the true voice of the people be heard.

    The Founders did not intend that women, black people, and native Americans vote. Most of the founders intended that only in some states white men with significant money could vote for president. Prior to arriving at the eventual wording of section 1 of Article II, the Constitutional Convention...
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    End winner take all in the electoral college and let the true voice of the people be heard.

    CA and NY Democratic voters could NOT determine the winner by themselves.
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    End winner take all in the electoral college and let the true voice of the people be heard.

    No. CA Dem voters were about 8.754 million out of more than 135 million total.
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    End winner take all in the electoral college and let the true voice of the people be heard.

    There are good reasons why no state awards their electors proportionally. Electors are people. They each have one vote. The result would be a very inexact whole number proportional system. Every voter in every state would not be politically relevant or equal in presidential elections. It...
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    End winner take all in the electoral college and let the true voice of the people be heard.

    "comparing these two American institutions perfectly illustrates we why we need to get rid of the winner-take-all Electoral College rules and establish a fairer system of electing the president based on a national popular vote." The Current Electoral College is Like the World Series (Which is...
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    End winner take all in the electoral college and let the true voice of the people be heard.

    California Democratic votes in 2016 were 6.4% of the total national popular vote.
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    End winner take all in the electoral college and let the true voice of the people be heard.

    “The bottom line is that the electors from those states who cast their ballot for the nationwide vote winner are completely accountable (to the extent that independent agents are ever accountable to anyone) to the people of those states. The National Popular Vote states aren’t delegating their...
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    End winner take all in the electoral college and let the true voice of the people be heard.

    Of COURSE the total national popular vote represents the vote of the nation -- all the votes for every candidate in all 50 states and DC.
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    End winner take all in the electoral college and let the true voice of the people be heard.

    Trump in June 2019 – Fox News interview “It’s always tougher for the Republican because, . . . the Electoral College is very much steered to the Democrats. It’s a big advantage for the Democrats. It’s very much harder for the Republicans to win.” Trump, April 26, 2018 on “Fox & Friends” “I...
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    End winner take all in the electoral college and let the true voice of the people be heard.

    Mob rule is defined as “control of a political situation by those outside the conventional or lawful realm, typically involving violence and intimidation.” [The] difference between a democracy and a republic [is] the delegation of the government, the latter, to a small number of citizens...
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    End winner take all in the electoral college and let the true voice of the people be heard.

    States with 3 electors range in population of less than 600,000 to almost a million. Constitutionally, the number of electors in each state is equal to the number of members of Congress to which the state is entitled, while the 23rd...
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    End winner take all in the electoral college and let the true voice of the people be heard.

    California and New York had a total of 24,243,000 registered voters. 15% of the total number of registered voters in the US in 2018 (which is 153,066,000). 5,187,019 Californians live in rural areas. 1,366,760 New Yorkers live in rural areas. Now, because of statewide winner-take-all laws for...
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    End winner take all in the electoral college and let the true voice of the people be heard.

    Maine (since enacting a state law in 1969) and Nebraska (since enacting a state law in 1992) have awarded one electoral vote to the winner of each congressional district, and two electoral votes statewide. When Nebraska in 2008 gave one electoral vote to the candidate who did not win the state...
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    End winner take all in the electoral college and let the true voice of the people be heard.

    In Gallup polls since 1944 until before the 2016 election, only about 20% of the public has supported the current system of awarding all of a state's electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes in each separate state (with about 70% opposed and about 10% undecided)...
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