The GOP is starting to squirm over its diminishing electoral prospects. A bid to split California's electoral votes by eliminating winner-take-all is their latest electon-skewing gambit:

A proposed initiative that drew national attention for its potential to affect next year's presidential election will not appear on the June ballot, organizers said Thursday.

Republican backers of the measure, which could have tilted the presidential contest toward the GOP nominee by changing how California awards electoral votes, conceded that they were unable to raise sufficient funds.

The proposal would replace California's winner-takes-all system of appropriating its 55 electoral votes, awarding the votes instead by which candidate wins individual congressional districts.

That's fairly insane. I agree in principle with proportional awarding of electoral votes based on the percentage of popular support, but that's not what this is. This proposal would nullify the people's ability to speak on a national level, assuming instead that a district representative can adequately speak for its citizens on the federal level. This in itself is undemocratic; what's even more undemocratic is picking one of the largest states in the union to implement this plan.

Nice try, clowns. Guess it's back to caging and provisional ballots!

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