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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (6563)	12/24/2000 9:54:07 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6710

Each state determines how its electors are selected. If any state legislature wanted to abolish popular vote for the President, and vote directly for Electors, it could do so. I doubt seriously any state legislature will ever vote to do away with the popular vote for President in their state. Why? It would be political suicide. State legislators would have to face the voters from whom they had taken the right to vote for President. The legislators would be turned out of office and the popular vote restored by the next set of legislators. This sets me to thinking though. I wonder if state legislators could vote to have their state electoral votes split between candidates on the basis of their proportion of the popular vote within the state?