I would like to break that 55-0 lock too, but the CA legislature is never going to do that unless the bigger red states (TX,VA,NC,AZ, etc) also do the same thing. If that happens then you turn the presidential election into a series of mini-elections where each party tries to win each congressional district, and that’s when the vote fraud starts as people start stuffing the ballot boxes to win the competitive congressional districts. I think we’re better off with the current winner-take-all system in the states.
Actually, maybe having the electoral votes re-structured in such a way where, you would devide up a states Electoral Vote by....
- Half would be allocated per Congressional District in that state.
- Half of the states votes would go to the winner of the popular vote in the entire State.
So a Presidential candidate could acquire Electoral Votes by winning Congressional Districts (up to Half of that State’s total Electoral Votes), and also by winning the majority of the total popular vote for the State (up to Half of that States total Electoral Votes).
Some states already do this....
In Maine and Nebraska one elector is awarded to the candidate receiving the most votes in each of the congressional districts, and the remaining two electoral votes are awarded to whoever gets the most votes statewide.
This would dilute the disproportionate ‘urban’ strength like Philadelphia on the entire state of Pennsylvania, where Democrats will normally come away with a plurality of over 350,000 to 600,000 +votes from Philadelphia alone, where the margin of victory in the entire state has been anywhere from 60,000 to 260,000 for Democrats in the past 2 decades.