wiscoaster
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As a conservative, I think there are still valid reasons today for retaining the electoral system of determining presidential elections. Yet, again as a conservative, I'm not really happy with the current all electoral votes to one candidate setup.
It seems to me that a fairly simple and equitable reform would be to give the two electoral votes corresponding to the states' senators to the candidate that gets a plurality of votes, and then to divide the electoral votes corresponding to the state's representatives in proportion to the division of the candidates' vote counts. This setup retains the original intents of the Senators representing the states' interests and the Representatives representing the peoples' interests, and it retains the intended safeguards that the Electoral College is needed for.
Thoughts?
It seems to me that a fairly simple and equitable reform would be to give the two electoral votes corresponding to the states' senators to the candidate that gets a plurality of votes, and then to divide the electoral votes corresponding to the state's representatives in proportion to the division of the candidates' vote counts. This setup retains the original intents of the Senators representing the states' interests and the Representatives representing the peoples' interests, and it retains the intended safeguards that the Electoral College is needed for.
Thoughts?
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