Reply #4: Would it really balance out the vote? [View All]

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Think of who *really* won these three states the last election and how many votes are totally at stake between these four states.

New York and California have by far more votes and are solidly Democratic. Florida arguably went Democratic (even though voting machines and other fraud helped them be Republican). The Texas minority votes are about the only ones the Dems would really pick up, as I'm guessing the Republicans are concerned that it would be hard to yet again get the Florida vote be bent towards the Republicans next election.

If you look at the way each state is represented in the electoral college (electoral voters = (# of reps in House) + (# of Senators)

you can see how already the smaller population states (that tend to be Republican) get an advantage there in terms of per-capita representation. Even if *all* of the states dropped their winner-take-all formula, it still would put the Democrats at a disadvantage.

In my mind the only other option to having winner-take-all in California and New York is to remove the electoral college to have a true Democratic vote of the populace. That I wouldn't mind seeing. But I don't think that's what people like Maze have in mind with this attempted "stealth" legislation.