Unlike former State Senator Ray Haynes who is a proponent of National
Popular  Vote, I disagree with the idea of this `reform'. I think there are
other  sensible ideas that would help encourage presidential candidates to
visit  particular areas in California for popular support such as having
each  congressional district award electoral votes and the overall winner
of the  state get the other two electoral votes.

At least by doing this by congressional votes, people will campaign in
those  areas helping to bring money in the California economy and
Republicans will  still be able to get some influence in the electoral
college where they have  not won California since the Dodgers won the World
Series in 1988.

The reason why we have the electoral college is to make sure small states,
big  states and medium states have equal power in their vote.

However with the National Popular Vote, the states in the compact send
their  electoral votes to the candidate who receives the majority of votes
in the  compact. The popularity of the idea depends on what type of states
enter this  compact.

Although as a former paid member of Californians for Electoral Reform, I do
 hear stories about how NPV is good for California and our nation, but I
think  we should just utilize the existing Electoral College and do it like
how Maine  and Nebraska and provide our electoral votes by congressional
district.

Even though California likes President Obama no matter what he does to our 
nation, what happens if the rest of the nation in the NPV compact wants to 
vote for the Republican, then we are going to get a lot of unhappy people. 
This is why I am proposing my alternative suggestion.


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