Proportional means that not all votes from a state go to one candidate , but instead they are spread proportionally among these candidates . Let ' s say there ' s a million popular votes total from a state and there are 20 electoral votes . Candidate A gets 700 thousand votes , Candidate B gets 300 thousand . It ' s a 73 proportion . You transpose that to the electoral votes and Candidate A gets 14 of them , Candidate B gets 6 . It ' s a total opposite of what you have now , the First Past the Post system . It ' s how America can make the Electoral College work and make the elections more democratic , not with abolishing it thus making small states unable to have any say . <| sep |> Yes . I work for one of them . The fun part is having a ton of books to read I think you ' ll find it useful . Here ' s the link