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To: U.S. Congress
Revise Current Electoral System to Make U.S. Presidential Elections More Representative
Amend the constitution to eliminate the Electoral College and replace it with a system awarding each state’s vote proportionally according to the proposal that follows:
• The Electoral College with its electors would be eliminated.
• The presidential candidate receiving the most votes in each congressional district would receive one vote from that district.
• The 2 senatorial votes would be allocated to the candidate receiving the most votes in each state unless the vote is closer than 1% and, in that case, the 2 senatorial votes would be split, 1 for each of the 2 top vote getters.
• The Electoral College with its electors would be eliminated.
• The presidential candidate receiving the most votes in each congressional district would receive one vote from that district.
• The 2 senatorial votes would be allocated to the candidate receiving the most votes in each state unless the vote is closer than 1% and, in that case, the 2 senatorial votes would be split, 1 for each of the 2 top vote getters.
Why is this important?
As can be seen by the Presidential elections of 2000 and 2016, the current Electoral system can elect a candidate who receives a smaller portion of the popular vote. While this seems inherently unfair, there are those that feel that without the protection of the Electoral College, larger, more populous states would have the ability to dominate the smaller states and render their voices mute. This new proposal keeps the current protection of the smaller states. They receive the same number of votes, but it eliminates the inherent unfairness of the current winner-take-all system. This ensures that a conservative voter in a conservative district in an otherwise liberal state (or vice versa, a liberal in a conservative state) would actually have a voice in the presidential election, it would matter how they vote. Since every vote would matter, it would encourage more people to vote.