@rickhasen My 8th graders have a question: Possible 4 states 2change their electoral vote system to proportional instead of winner take all?
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would it have to be an amendment or could individual states adopt it?
Under Article II of the Constitution, each state legislature chooses rules for picking electors in that state
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they want to know if would it be reasonable if California would give out their electoral votes like Maine and Nebraska?
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Doing so would turn 55 solid Democratic votes into a split with Republicans (in R cong. dists). Dems would never go for it
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they want to know if voting were a national holiday, would more people do it?
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thank you for answering all of our questions!
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my pleasure! glad you all are so interested in the topic.
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probably it could be done through a voter initiative. But it would be for each state. But...
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there ' a proposal to make each state agree to be bound by winner of national popular vote. Google "national popular vote"
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not clear if National Popular Vote is constitutional.
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so we would need an amendment - and smaller pop states wouldn't go for it, right?
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it could be done state by state, but states don't have incentive to do it. And amendment is HARD
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