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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I see that Maine splits its electoral vote - not sure the formula, but Hillary won the popular vote about 48 to 45% and she got 3 of he 4 electoral votes, and Trump got 1.  So it seems states can proportion their EC votes to reflect the popular vote?[/quote]

Yes only Maine and Nebraska does this.[/quote]

Is it a choice the individual states get to make?
So could more do this if they wanted to?[/quote]

Yes its the choice of the state and more can do it if they wanted to BUT that won't fix the issue that the EC votes themselves are not allocated fairly. For instance WY with 550K voters have 3 EC votes as does North Dakota with 750k voters. So the person winning ND will have 200K more votes BUT still get only 3 EC votes. Thats the crux of the problem.

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PP, maybe you should move to Wyoming then you could feel good about there 'advantage'. LOL[/quote]

Its not about me. Its about an antiquated law that served its purpose to count the slaves without giving them the vote when it was created. But the senate is there to fight for the small states as it was designed. The direct election of the president should be based on majority vote. period. Why are the republicans against it? Afterall they won landslide popular vote wins in 1988 when Reagan was president and in 1988 it was still a very big popular vote win. [/quote]

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