"In case you haven’t heard, the Republicans don’t even want to wait until
Election Day to steal 20 electoral votes this cycle. The CA GOP’s law firm,
cloaked behind the admirable-sounding name Californians for Equal
Representation, is sponsoring a ballot initiative called the Presidential
Election Reform Act. If passed, it would apportion 53 of CA’s 55 electoral votes
based on the ballots in individual congressional districts rather than
winner-take-all for the whole state, thus throwing a bonus Ohioful of electoral
votes to the Republican candidate without him winning a single additional
state."
While I understand the concerns about this being unfair, and it would unset the balance of electoral votes, since the state goes Democratic most often. I have doubts that the system as it is, is fair. When you look at a state, and county by country the vote is for one party, but the city votes for the other party - and carries all the votes to that party for the state, is that fair. The best solution in my opinion is to grant a proportion of electoral votes, in equal proportion to the raw numbers settle for each party.
This is the same small state versus large state dilemma that has haunted the country since its founding, and even before. Giving all the votes to the person who gets the most votes for the state means that there is no need to campaign in the rural areas. Rural voters don't carry enough numbers to make it worth it to go out there and share your message with them. This system on the other hand means that it can't be said to be one person, one vote. In a district of say 10 people, one vote is 10 percent of the total. In a district of 1,000 people, ten percent of the total would be 100 - one persons vote is worth 100 votes in another district. I understand the concern about the system not being fair, but I don't think this is the right way to fix it.
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