Some liberals and leftists falsely believe that Proportional Assignment of State Electors within the Electoral College System would create more fair elections then the current Winner-Take-All approach in most states.
In fact, the opposite is true. If Electors were assigned proportionally in every state, there would be even more elections in which the popular vote winner lost the election. And in many recent elections, the numbers of electors would be so close that the race would be sent to a special session in which each state gets one vote (1992, 1996, 2000, 2016), which is even worse than the Electoral College, and Republicans would win that nearly every time.
I've previously argued that the winner-take-all assignment of electors actually undoes some of the anti-democratic bias in the electoral college, and this analysis proves it.
What we need instead is the Interstate Compact for a National Popular Vote. That is an interstate agreement which effectively negates the Electoral College and replaces it with a popular vote. Fifteen States have already signed on to the idea, and they just need a few more. (But it may be hard to get more states as long as they are controlled by Republicans--who consistently benefit from the Electoral College--as they did in 2000 and 2016 winning the Electoral College but not the Popular vote. Still, every other way of ending the Electoral College faces the same challenge of getting a few more states to flip, but the interstate compact permits the change with the least amount of flipping and other constitutional hurdles.)
https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/shortcoming-proportional-method-awarding-electoral-votes
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