[TigerClaws]

This would be great. Do it like Maine does!

[Secret Agent Man]

All west coast states should do it.

[EDINVA]

Fat chance!

[Senator Goldwater]

They’ll want Texas and Florida divvied up too.

Which could be arranged.

[x]

Unilateral disarmament?

Not gonna happen.

[Inyo-Mono]

The electoral map shows that over half of the state voted for Trump, but the big, lib areas on the coast rule, which has ruined California.

[Nifster]

Just plain no

The founders had it correct

This is the first step to accepting a popular vote as the way to elect candidates. Then we end up like Venezuela

[SoFloFreeper]

This is not a job for change.org, that Obama inspired site... the California state law should do it. Would make everyone’s vote in California mean more.

[rottndog]

No electoral reform in Kalifornia will mean squat, until and unless non-citizens are removed from the voter rolls. But for non-citizen votes, Trump may very well have won the popular vote nationally, IMHO.

[PubliusMM]

Do it the way the EV is enumerated...
The EV that represents the House District should be cast for the winner of the popular vote in the district.
The two EV that represent the two Senate seats can be cast for the candidate taking the popular vote in the State.
That leaves three for DC, which can cast for the winner of the popular vote in DC.
Simple.
Darn near elegant.

[P-Marlowe]

Heck YES!!!!

[FlingWingFlyer]

How ‘bout we just leave sh*t the way it is. It has worked great since the late 1700s.

[Michael.SF.]

I have long favored this plan. California Congressional delegation right now is: 38D-15R. Assuming Trump won each of those 15 districts the EV for California would then be 40 Hillary and 15 for Trump.

California Dems know this and will never ever give up those 15 EV's.

[Ingtar]

Then they will redraw their districts so that only 2 or 3 of them are outside the cities.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

In my dreams. Trump would have gotten 18 electoral votes if this happened. Hillary would have gotten 33 instead of 55.

California is a commie Dem Rat stronghold and they would NEVER allow this to happen. It would have to be lead by referendum but the overwhelming liberal majority would shoot it down. If by some miracle it passed, the commie Rats would send it to the courts and the 9th Circus would deem it “unconstitutional”.

But, from your lips to God’s ears. It would be fantabulous if California’s electoral votes were split in relation to the popular vote. I have wanted this for years, but it will never happen. The commie rats who run the state know it will challenge their stranglehold. When you already own a state lock, stock, and barrel, why would they volunteer to give up that power.

[Brilliant]

Won’t happen while Dems are in control but it’s a good idea to press them and accuse them of hypocrisy.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Honestly, I wish we would just cut the state in half above San Francisco.

[Gene Eric]

One county, one vote.

[Alberta's Child]

There's a difference between proportional electoral votes and the district-based system that Maine and Nebraska use. I'd be OK with the latter, but a direct proportional allocation of electoral votes would present all kinds of problems.

It's probably not in a state's best interest to do this anyway. What would happen if Clinton got 51% of the popular vote in California and Trump got 49%? If the 55 electoral votes are awarded proportionally, then Clinton would get 28 and Trump would get 27. This means that California effectively would have only one electoral vote in the presidential election. Even in a major blowout where one candidate gets 65% and the other gets 35%, you're looking at a 36-19 split in the electoral vote ... which means California's electoral vote gets heavily diluted compared to other large states.

[Myrddin]

Frankly, all states should use the proportional approach. You want the vote from a district, you pay attention to the people there to earn it. No flyover country. Every district has the same number of citizens. Every one is worthy of having its vote included. The two state elector votes should come from the state government. That's the point of those two votes in every state. A fully proportional approach would muzzle the popular vote idiots. We don't need mobocracy from the big cities to the exclusion of more sparsely populated areas.

[Oatka]

IMO, this should be done in all states as it would break the power of the Democratic-heavy Metro areas which call the shots with the current-winner-take-all approach. It disenfranchises all the red rural areas.

CA has 55 Electoral Votes and 53 Congressional Districts. So, roughly, the Frisco/Angeles Metro areas take 30 or so EVs, the Republicans get the other 25 and CA is no longer the powerhouse it is now.

Unfortunately, it ain't gonna happen in CA - or any other state with a Democratic majority.