North Carolina may adopt District Method for choosing electors

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From Ballot Access News:

On July 25, the North Carolina House Election Law & Campaign Finance Committee passed SB 353. It provides that each U.S. House district in North Carolina would elect its own presidential elector. The bill had passed the Senate on May 24. It is likely to receive a vote in the House on July 26. The bill passed on a party-line vote, with Democrats voting “yes” and Republicans voting “no.” Thanks to Rick Hasen for this news.

The only states that currently let each U.S. House district choose its own presidential elector are Nebraska and Maine.

If this method had been used in 2004 Kerry would have received 4 of the state's 15 electoral votes.

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I do hope this doesn't happen on a large scale (and if largish states like NC do it, the trend might catch on elsewhere eventually)...It's bad enough that gerrymandering affects the House, I'd rather not have it affect the Presidency...

I agree.  I really like this method in theory but in practice it is prone to manipulation due to gerrymandering.  It works best in smaller states like Maine and Nebraska because it is hard to gerrymander when you don't have very many districts.

I'd prefer the larger states (10 EVs or more) to adopt the proportional method.

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It seems that this plan is being scrapped at the request of Howard Dean.  The bill's primary sponsor withdrew it on Saturday.  I'm not really sure why Dean would want to stop this though, unless he was trying to prevent the same thing from happening in states where Republicans control the legislature.  If Democrats were to win the election due to NC splitting its EV I highly doubt that they would simultaneously lose the popular vote.