GOP wants to split Michigan Electoral College votes. That would help the GOP. [View all]
LANSING — Republicans in the Michigan House are considering a plan to award most of the state’s presidential electors by congressional district, an overhaul that could give new influence to voters in rural areas dominated by GOP candidates.
Legislation debated Tuesday would likely help Republican candidates by ending the state’s winner-take-all system that last year allocated all 16 Electoral College votes to Democratic President Joe Biden because he won the popular vote by 3 percentage points.
Instead, Michigan would join Maine and Nebraska by awarding one elector to the winner of each congressional district, and then two electors to the winner of the statewide vote.
That’s a system that would have allowed former President Donald Trump to evenly split the state’s electors with Biden, despite his loss.
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