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In reply to the discussion: If a 'president' cheats to win an election...he's not a legitimate president. [View all]MurrayDelph
(5,760 posts)but instead of removing the Electoral College, we should reform it.
I've mentioned it here before, but my idea is to make it a double-proportional representation.
Instead of 538 Electoral votes, raise it to (for example) 10,000.
If a state (let's say, California) has 10% of the eligible voter population, they would get 10% of the Electoral College
delegates (in this example 1,000 delegates total)
If a candidate in this California gets 65% of the votes, he/she would get 65% of that state's votes (In this example,
650 delegates).
This would mean:
It would be in the Red states interests to not disenfranchise voters, because it would reduce their number of delegates
If a Red state had more votes than voters, it would not affect country-wide totals
It would allow minority parties to actually have representation.