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Originally Posted by ASU2003
I think it should be broken down by the percentage of votes. If candidate A gets 52%, candidate B gets 30% and candidate C gets 18%, the winner should get 52% of the electrorial votes + 2, the second place place person should get around30% and the third place person should get around 18%. But make it nationwide.
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What do you do when you cannot evenly divide electoral votes by this method? Say those are the results in a state that has 3 electoral votes?
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Originally Posted by ASU2003
Or just make it a straight election with no electroial college, but rules that state that the candidates have to travel to every state and have to spend 20% of the time in rural counties.
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What penalty would you inflict upon politicians that choose not to go to the rural counties? Given the current political climate, its a waste of resources for a candidate to go to the rural areas. Most of them are solidly in one side, so it makes no sense for the candidate who essentially has no chance of getting thier votes to go there, and it doesn't make sense for the politician that is most likely to get their votes to go there either, when either one could be appealing to the places where the people are more likely to be swing voters, or "soft" voters to one side.