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Lokarin posted...

There's a problem with it where its benefit is turned into a penalty.

The idea of giving the lesser loser states a smidgen more power so that they aren't ruled by LA and NY is a good idea.

Bad idea is making it so that seats are awarded on an all or nothing basis, meaning that 60% of a state votes R and 40% votes D... it counts as 100% voting R, which is definitely NOT the spirit of the college

Already they have 2 senators and states with in some cases 40+ times their population or more have 2 senators. I think that is enough power myself, 2 senators representing a population of 550k or something like that, vs. 2 senators representing nearly 40 million.

I also will point out that the election every year is decided by a handful of swing states mostly. So this is a system that really does not give small states like Wyoming more power, because their 3 electoral votes are taken for granted by the Republican party, similar to a smaller state that votes Democratic nearly every time.