Governor Walker and RNC Chair Priebus want to split electoral votes based on who won congressional districts. Given the gerrymandering that occurred in 2010, this means WI would go from sending all electoral votes to the Democratic presidential candidate to giving over half to the Replublican presidential candidate.
In principal, I could agree to that if the senate electoral votes were split among the top two vote getters unless one person won 2/3 of the congressional votes. The state would always end up 6/4 as things stand and the majority of folks probably wouldn't have to deal with all the adds anymore. That gives you most of what you want, right?
But here's what I want in return: eliminate districts and make the WI Assembly a party-proportional election every two years.
So, the Republicans get some presidential electoral votes due to the congressional seat gerrymandering but the people get an Assembly that actually matches the way Wisconsinite votes were cast instead of what we have now. Deal?
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