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Committee Considers Electoral Changes

Testimony opened in Lansing Thursday on legislation to hand out electoral votes in a presidential election based on the overall percentage of the statewide vote in Michigan.

A companion bill would have Michigan joining a compact to have a common nationwide electoral policy.

But a rival proposal would award an electoral vote for each congressional district and two chosen at large.

Critics of that plan say it wrongly makes it easier for someone without the popular vote, to win.

Currently Michigan is among 48 states that have a winner-take-all system where all electoral votes in a state go to the candidate who finishes first.

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