Here’s how Sen. Charles W. Carrico Sr.’s legislation would work: Currently the candidate who wins the most votes in Virginia takes all of the state’s 13 electoral votes. This year, Obama won 51 percent of the votes in Virginia in 2012, giving him 13 electoral votes.
Under this proposed legislation, each candidate would get one electoral vote for each of the state’s 11 congressional districts he wins. The state’s two at-large votes would go to the candidate that wins the majority of the district. Had this legislation been in place on Nov. 6, Mitt Romney would have won nine electoral votes to President Obama’s four.
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I feel every state should do this. Or do away with electoral voting system altogether and let the winner be the popular vote.
4:14 Agree and I would like to see it go county to county. As you can see from our last election, Obama won in the arias highly saturated by people on Government assistance.
Be careful what you wish for...
This should be the way it runs in EVERY state. Popular vote is the way to go, the past election would have been a lot closer, still fraudulently won, but was a LOT closer!
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