Bart Ingles wrote: > > Richard Moore wrote: > >>It would be harder to make people see the advantages of a new >>method if adopting that method fails to bring those promised >>advantages. So abolishing the EC is either a prerequisite or a >>corequisite to getting a better method in place. >> > > > Only if your focus is the U.S. Presidential election.
Where electoral college abolition is concerned, that is the focus. > Any real reform > will probably have to start at the county level anyway, at least the way > elections are conducted in California. CA Elections are administered at > the county level, so cities tend to want to wait and see what the county > will support. And of course higher-level elections would take more work > & resources to change. I wasn't saying that local EM reforms should be contingent on EC abolition. I was responding to the idea that national EM reforms should precede any efforts at EC abolition. -- Richard
