Posted on 07/17/2011 11:24:59 AM PDT by thecodont
National Popular Vote gives a voice to the minority party voters in each state. Now their votes are counted only for the candidate they did not vote for.
The district approach gives minority party voters an even bigger voice. In districts where the minority party wins the popular vote, the minority party candidate ACTUALLY receives the electoral vote allocated to that district.
You still have NO RESPONSE to the SCOTUS ruling that once the state has allocated a voting franchise to its citizens, 14th Amendment protections apply. That is, one voter's vote CANNOT be favored over another's - which is what happens under NPV.
The switching of a state's electoral votes based on the cumulative total of all the OTHER states [plus those who voted in the OTHER side in the affected state] is the same as the state erasing the majority of votes within its borders and SUBSTITUTING votes for what HAD BEEN the losing candidate within its borders.
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