re: #53 Hecuba’s daughter

Wouldn’t it fix the problem, though? I mean, if a state’s popular vote split 55/45 for one candidate, that candidate would get 55% of the EC votes as opposed to 100%. Instead of your state being taken for granted, candidates would have an incentive to pay attention to all votes, and you wouldn’t end up in a situation where a candidate carries 100% of a state’s EC votes due to a third-party spoiler (in fact, under this system, HRC would’ve won in 2016 because she’d have received roughly half of the EC votes in PA/WI/MI instead of none).

And speaking of third-party candidates, wouldn’t EC votes apportioned according to each state’s popular vote make them viable as opposed to guaranteed spoilers? (though I could see how that could create a mess of its own, i.e. no candidate getting a clear majority of EC votes).