Re:What if states earned their Electoral College votes based...
by wodenokoto on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @09:43AM
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Which is why the votes ought to be pooled across states, so all the Republican votes in California don't get lost, just because the state majority ended up voting Democratic.
Re:What if states earned their Electoral College votes based...
by yuliyp on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @09:51AM
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If you're pooling votes across the states then you don't exactly have an eloctoral college any more, and you get the turnout-proportional results anyway.
Re:What if states earned their Electoral College votes based...
by mvymvy on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @03:56PM
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The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the majority of Electoral College votes and the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and DC.
The national popular vote winner would receive all of the 270+ electoral votes of the enacting states.
Under National Popular Vote, every voter, everywhere, would be politically relevant and equal in every presidential election. Every vote would matter in the state counts and national count.
The bill has passed a total of 33 legislative chambers in 22 rural, small, medium, large, red, blue, and purple states states with 250 electoral votes. The bill has been enacted by 11 jurisdictions possessing 165 electoral votes—61% of the 270 electoral votes necessary to activate it
Basically if you think your party will win, you want to show up. If your party will lose, you want to skip. There are basically 3 equilibria: 100% of either party votes and 0% of the other one, or exactly 50/50 with the outcome unknown to anyone.