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Originally Posted by Rekna
1st: Electoral College, Don't eliminate it but states should not be all or nothing they should be porportional. As it is now If you live in an opposing color state your vote is worthless.
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Not that I am defending the Electoral College system in any way, but this is not a good idea. All this will do is dillute the intentions of the popular vote by averaging out the votes in any given state and assigning a disproportionate value to those votes.
For example, lets take two states, A and B. They each have 10 EVs and 20 million people.
If State A ends with a 11,000,000 to 9,000,000 popular vote, each candidate will receive (depending on how the values are averaged) either 5 EV or 6 for one and 4 for the other.
If State B ends with a 10,000,000 to 10,000,000 popular vote, each candidate will again receive 5 EV.
State A will either be eliminating the value of 1 million votes for each candidate or eliminating the value of 1 million votes for one candidate while doubling the value of 1 million votes for the other candidate (a 6 to 4 EV breakdown would imply a 12mil to 8 mil popular vote).