On Oct 20, 2008, at 8:54 PM, Dave Ketchum wrote:
It may be difficult, but useless to claim impossible.
Could start the thinking by considering weighting the votes from the
small states, consistent with the advantage they get via the
Electoral College.
The small states lose their advantage with NPV; perhaps NPV would make
it easier, not harder, to implement a better fix.
DWK
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:15:45 -0500 Paul Kislanko wrote:
Re:
Is the Electoral College recognized as having lived ot its useful
life? If so, perhaps we could do up a worthwhile constitutional
amendment.
For the same reason we have an Electoral College there's no way to
get a
Constitutional Amendmendt on the ballot - such a suggestion would
have to
pass the Senate, wherein even the smallest state has two
representatives who
would be against the idea.
For the same reason the EC is bad, it can't ever be changed - it
gives an
inordinate amount of authority to the "small" states, and those
states, now
that they have it, are not likely to give it up.
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