Some have already rightly voiced concerns that it would cause politicians to concentrate on the urban areas and neglect the concerns of rural areas. Some Republicans think it would help them, but it could invite more fraud.
Currently, if there is fraud going on in Louisana, the most the fraud can do is help with Louisana's electoral votes. Additionaly if in Ohio, subversives efforts to create fraud do not succed, then there is nothing more the subversives can do.
With the new system, the strong ethics of the people of Ohio wouldn't matter. All they have to do is pump votes into Louisiana and it would have a national effect.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The California Legislature passed a bill that would give California's 55 electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote, rather than the candidate who captured the state — but for now, the measure stands a slim chance of becoming reality.
That's because it could go into effect only if states with a combined total of 270 electoral votes — the number now required to win the presidency — agree to the same process.
Similar legislation is pending in Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana and Missouri — which have a combined 50 electoral votes. With California's 55, the legislation would still be less than halfway there......... AP via Yahoo
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