Dave wrote: > Destroying the EC is neither practical nor useful. > There are doable improvements for the EC. > IRV people need to be locked out of this debate. > >Practical nor useful? > Not practical, for it requires at least some of the low population >states to approve a Constitutional amendment that gives them less voice in >electing a President.
OK, fine, give them the power. Just do it in a way that isn't ridiculously crude. Just scale the votes. If there are N votes cast in North Dakota, then multiply every vote from North Dakota by 3/N. If there are M votes cast in California, then multiply every vote from California by 54/M. Much more simple, and much less crude. This also makes it easy to implement Condorcet or approval in a national election, if we can ever get there. > What lies down this path - electing by nationwide popular vote? >Then you get nationwide suffering with near ties like Florida got in 2000 >with a near tie. The possibility of a close national election is not, in my opinion, a sufficient reason to avoid using a better method. Recounts are part of elections; a national recount would not be a disaster. And the chances of a national election being as close as Florida's was are vanishingly small, of course. ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info