Does anybody have a good reason why you don't divide the electoral
college votes for a state based on the proportion of votes each
candidate receives within that state? As it stands, you can have a
state with 17 votes that gets a 51% return for, say, Mr
Monkey-brains, and all 17 votes go to him, when his opponent Mrs
Cheesecake-face got 48.5% of the vote. How is that fair?
At least here in the UK we do it with smaller divisions, so
although you can win a seat with well under 50% of the votes
(depending on how many candidates are standing), it only decides
one seat, not seventeen of the things. Strikes me as a simple
change which would not make the system perfect, but would improve
it considerably - and knock out a lot of this 'swing state' rubbish
too.
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