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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

OP - think about it.... even if you reduced these small states (WY, ND, SD, MT etc.) from 3 EC votes down to 1 EC vote to "correct" as you say for their "over representation" in the EC Donald Trump still would have won the EC and the presidency.

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No you are wrong, if it goes all the way then every state including PA will be reduced. The other way to look at this is instead of reducing you increase the EC votes based on population then CA will have 110 EC votes. Remember math is proportional, so it won't change the outcome as long as the Winner has a majority vote win. Hillary's lead is over 1 Million votes and its a travesty that 1 Million voters are DISENFRANCHISED. [/quote]

Why didn't you and HRC's other supporters not bring up the flaws of the EC process BEFORE she lost??????[/quote]

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