From Mother Jones: the GOP in Pennsylvania (which controls the legislature and the governorship) is pushing a scheme to allocate all but two of the state's electoral votes on the basis of which presidential candidate wins in each of the state's congressional districts. Other large GOP-controlled states may follow their lead as well. This scheme is likely to produce perverse outcomes, with a candidate conceivably winning the popular vote in a large state like Pennsylvania, while receiving less than half of its electoral votes. Currently this scheme is used only in Maine and Nebraska, where the small number of congressional districts renders the whole question less important.
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