Comments on: Bill would allocate Virginia electoral votes by congressional district

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 06:26:57 +0000

This would be like if in the Presidential election electoral votes were allocated on a state-by-state basis instead of a winner-take-all method. Oh, wait…

By: George Shaheen

George Shaheen — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 03:32:45 +0000

Bill Carrico is finished.

By: PeterJ

PeterJ — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:30:34 +0000

In theory every congressional district should have approximately the same number of people. At least that is part of the approved curriculm for Virginia’s public schools.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:43:32 +0000

Ernie, he perceives a rural vote as more likely to be a Republican vote than an urban one is. That’s his explanation.

By: Ernie

Ernie — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:46:54 +0000

He needs to explain why a rural vote is worth more than an urban vote. There is no valid explanation.

By: gdad

gdad — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:34:53 +0000

“If it’s going to continue winner-take-all — it doesn’t matter which side is running — it’s going to all come down to how many people vote in the metropolitan areas and it doesn’t matter what the rural voters do,”

So what he wants is for the rural MINORITY to take over elections.

“Carrico said his proposal is not driven by partisan concerns.”

Was he able to keep from laughing when he said this?

By: Kristen

Kristen — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 14:05:51 +0000

Yet more Republicans gerrymandering. You want to win an election, run a winning candidate, but stop disenfranchising the electorate.

By: jak

jak — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 14:28:07 +0000

If any proposal would violate the rule of 1 person 1 vote this would certainly be it. What kind of a plan would give the winner of the popular vote in Virginia less than half the electoral votes? If you want to allocate the electoral votes more fairly do it by allocating by percentage of popular vote won. Not by using gerrymandered districts with skewed populations.

By: Leslie Tenney

Leslie Tenney — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 08:46:14 +0000

If more people live in cities, that should count for something. If Obama won the popular vote in Virginia, how would it be fair for Romney to have won 13 electoral votes to Obama’s four? How is giving rural areas more electoral votes per capita fair? It isn’t. It’s the only way Republicans can see to win a national election with the demographics of the country changing, and the idea is unjust to its core. The congressional districts in many states were gerrymandered by GOP-controlled state legislatures to overrepresent Republican voters. If all states did this, and the popular vote went to the Democrats by four million votes, but the electoral college caused the GOP to win, would that really be OK? The state houses that were taken over by Republicans in 2010 that engineered the gerrymandering were in low-turnout mid-term elections. Once people saw what some of these state houses tried to do legislatively, they in many cases rebuked them in this year’s elections. But the districts were already gerrymandered, and could remain that way for many years, even while the demographics change. It’s disingenuous for Carrico to assert that his plan is not driven by partisan concerns.

By: tass

tass — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 05:08:06 +0000

“Carrico said his proposal is not driven by partisan concerns.”

Hahaha right.