What was the difference between Colorados 2004 proposal to proportionally allocate electoral votes and the current way that Nebraska and Maine proportionally allocate electoral votes?
Both Maine and Nebraska allocate their electors by a district system. For example, Maine has four electoral votes. Two electors are selected on the basis of the statewide vote and two are selected according to outcome of the vote in each of Maine’s two Congressional districts. Nebraska’s five electoral votes are distributed in the same manner: two based on the statewide vote, and three based on the results in Congressional districts. Since these States have adopted a proportional system of allocating electoral votes, all the States’ electoral votes have gone to only one of the Presidential candidates. Colorado’s 2004 initiative would have proportionally allocated electoral votes based on the percentage of votes that each presidential candidate received. For example, if candidate A gets 55 percent of the vote and candidate B gets 45 percent, then candidate A gets 5 electoral votes and candidate B gets 4 electoral votes. If candidate A gets 67 percent, then candidate A gets 6 electoral v
