Al Gore Calls for End of Electoral College

[BlueStreak]

91. I don't follow your numbers, but it isn't about the numbers anyway.

The concept of the firewall is that I, as a citizen of Indiana, have no opportunity to affect the people who are in charge of Ohio's corrupt elections. I don't want any case where Ohio spoils my vote. The EC firewall does that. It limits the damage to Ohio's ~115 electors.

Without the firewall, it would theoretically be possible for Ohio's magic election systems to register thousands of vote that never happened, thereby allowing one or two corrupt states to overcome the votes of other states.

If you want numbers, let's say the real popular vote was 40M for Mr. A and 39,750,000 for Mr. B and that produced an EC distribution under my system of 1550 to 1450 -- a spread of 100 electors nationally. If Florida and Ohio used their magic election machines to create 200,000 false, unauditable votes for Mr. B, that would give Mr. B 40,050,000 popular votes and the victory if it were simply based on popular vote. With the EC firewall in place. the two election fraud states (I'm speaking hypothetically, don't you know?) would not get EXTRA electors. They would simply realign the allocation of electors they were entitled to according to census data. In this scenario, that would not come anywhere close to tipping 100 EC votes.

In other words, if we go on a simple popular vote, that means that any single magic election machine anywhere in the country could theoretically generate as many votes as necessary to flip the election. And don't tell me people wouldn't try this. It has already been done. There are well documented cases of precincts with unauditable touch-screen machines reporting far more votes than they have registered voters. Obviously that was fraud, but the votes are still normally counted because there is (by careful design) no audit trail that could provide the correct numbers.