Eliminate Winner-Take-All Electoral Votes
The policy proposal is to eliminate the winner-take-all method of a State allocating 100% of its electoral votes to the majority winner of the state-wide popular vote. Each district within a State will cast its vote per the winner of the district. State Senator votes are not affected. Said differently, each State will cast its votes per the winners of each of its Congressional district and its two Senators.
It remains critically important to retain the Electoral College process so that all States have a regional voice and are not completely negated by a few highly populated States.
However, in that same vein the districts within each State also need a similar geographical voice so that one or two highly populated districts (i.e., major cities) don’t negate the interests of all the other districts (i.e., suburban and rural towns).
For example: New York City versus the rest of New York State.
Background:
Electoral votes are allocated among the States based on the Census. Every State is allocated a number of votes equal to the number of Senators and Representatives in its U.S. Congressional delegation—two votes for its Senators in the U.S. Senate plus a number of votes equal to the number of its Congressional districts. All States, except for Maine and Nebraska, have a winner-take-all policy where the State looks only at the overall winner of the state-wide popular vote.