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nationalpopularvote.com — The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and the District of Columbia). The bill would take effect only when enacted, in identical form, by states possessing a majority of the electoral votes.. enough electoral votes to elect a President (270).

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  • cashman57, on 04/08/2008, -2/+2Bad idea. It would mean New York and California decide.
    • Plattburger, on 04/11/2008, -0/+1Not necessarily, but even that would be better than letting the rural states continue to have an unfair advantage. This is about 1 person 1 vote which everyone always claims as why we can't have Instant Runoff Voting, which of course is a red herring because IRV is 1 person 1 more detailed vote!
  • ForestRangerBen, on 04/16/2008, -0/+2No.
  • KLBP, on 05/30/2008, -0/+1A better and easier change to implement would be simply to require all states proportionally allocate their electoral votes between candidates based on the results of said state's vote. The big problem with the Electoral college is that some states are "winner takes all" where the winning candidate gets all of the electoral votes for said state even if they only had a very slim lead.

    Proportionally allocating electoral college votes on a state by state basis would help ensure the winning candidate also won the popular vote, but would also protect some states from being disenfranchised because of some act of God like serious storms that suppress voter turn out in a given state.
    • rewinn, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1Nope. The "Act of God" problem you posit has never happened. It's better to solve the KNOWN problem than one that does not exist.

      And BTW electoral vote allocation is by population, not by number of voters. That's just nuts.
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