Question 12.83

2. Under the Electoral College, most states award all their electoral votes to the winner of the state’s popular election. A complaint about the Electoral College is that the candidate with the most votes under the Electoral College may not be the popular-vote winner. Legislatures in some states, such as Pennsylvania, have proposed dividing their states into electoral districts and then using a winner-take-all method to award all the electoral votes of an electoral district to the popular-vote winner. Can a similar complaint occur at the state level, in which the candidate with the most electoral votes in the state is not the popular-vote winner in the state? Explain. How does this relate to the National Popular Vote law and the Electoral College?