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(52,437 posts)every eligible voter within a state has equal say in who wins the entire slate.
every other statewide election is winner-take-all. there's no proportional sharing of the governorship or senate seats.
note, also, that the state can even choose not to have an election of presidential electors entirely (though, granted, *if* they decide to have an election they have to abide by certain rules). but they could choose to appoint a slate for entirely one candidate in complete disregard for the will of the people in the state. that would also be perfectly constitutional. another argument for just amending the constitution to permit direct popular election of the president across the country.
if it got the the supreme court, no doubt some justice would ask, if the founders had wanted proportional allocation of electors within the state, they could have and would have specified that. but they didn't. the states wanted that control, and they did not want to be required to let the people decide.