Reply #9: But how do those electoral votes get divided? [View All]

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If you have a small state that went 55% Republican that has 3 electoral votes (2 senate seats + 1 house seat), do you give 2 electoral votes to Republicans and 1 to Democrats? See how the math works there? Republicans pick up a lot more votes potentially on mere rounding differences.

And what's proposed here is just about the top four states, as if somehow because one is a red state and the other two dem states in the last election that makes things equal. The way I figure the electoral votes, if the last election were held under the new rules the vote totals would be as follows:

The actual vote difference (with winner take all)

Democrats 86
Republicans 61

and depending on rules for how you distribute "rounded" votes, which even could be picked up in some instances by folks like Nader or Badnarik, the best case for the Democrats would be:

Democrats 75
Republicans 72

and worst case might be

Democrats 73
Republicans 73
Badnarik 1 (he had 55% of a vote in California)

That's a pickup of 11 to 12.5 electoral votes by the Republicans. This proposed change for the "top four" states is anything but fair to the Democrats.