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US Presidential Election: What California law would need to change for California to cast its electoral votes according to the popular vote instead of the current "winner takes all" practice?

• Constitutionally, the state has complete control of how the electoral votes are cast.  In the spirit of the US constitution, each elector is supposed to represent a segment of the population. However (apparently for historic reasons), currently all the electoral votes are giving the to candidate for whom majority have voted.  The current 6901-9 law is not specific on this subject how the votes should be cast.  55 CA electoral votes represent 38M of CA population, or 700K people to each elector.  In the 2012 presidential election, voting according to the popular vote would result in 33 votes to Obama and 22 votes to Romney.  22 electoral votes is as much as Main, Wisconsin, Vermont and Massachusetts have altogether.  Should the average Vermont resident have 4x the change of influencing the US Presidential election as an average California resident?  In practice, "winner takes all" policies results in candidates focusing most of their attention (and policy decisions) on "swing" states - to the detriment of the states with clear majority leaning towards one party.

• Answer:

  It's actually kind of complicated, and it varies by party. In theory, the parties could do it separately, under sections 7100 and 7300. In practice, I'd also recommend amending Newton's Laws of Motion and the Laws of Thermodynamics, which are approximately as likely.