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Originally posted by Scipio
Keep the electoral college, but eliminate the electors received for senators. If you live in Montana, your vote counts more than a Californian's does.
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For the people who live in states that no one seems to mention during campaign time this might seem to be a spirit lifter, but the truth is that a candidate could lose all the states with 10 electors or less and still be president by a landslide. A candidate need only win 13 of the 50 states to become president
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Originally posted by Scipio
For elections, they need to make election day a holiday.
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Everyone would be "out of town". I doubt it would increase the turnout at the polls by a very large margin, if any at all.
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Originally posted by Scipio
Then, they need to consider online voting, computerized voting, and eliminating lever and push card voting machines. Some of the intermediate scan-type machines are still cool, because they enter data electronically, and are easy to read.
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I'm sure Microsoft would love to include this software with their next release of Windows, wouldn't you President Gates?