>>No honest person who is informed about how the electoral college works thinks it’s fair.
I do, because I support the concept of Federalism and I do not believe in a Centralized "America" I believe in 50 independent States, a Republic
I also think popular vote for senate was a mistake. The States need to have power over the federal government not just the people.
The US Constitution reserves powers and rights to both the people AND the States for a reason, that reason is the fact that our system of government is a Federalist Republic, not a strait representative democracy. Nor would I support a transition to a strait representative democracy as I believe the federal government is far far far too powerful today
I would support changes to the Electoral College, like the Wyoming Rule, or requiring all states to delegate their votes Proportionally by congressional district instead of Winner take all, etc but calls for elimination of the Electoral College are short sighted and ill advised
Correct in that the Electoral College is not a full Republic, that is no the intent, nor is it desired.
There should always be a mix of power, power for the people, and power for the States. the Electoral College attempts to balance that by granting 2 Votes for every state no matter the population, then granting another amount of votes based on population. The 2 votes representing the state (i.e the Senate which was originally the states Representatives in Congress), and Equal number of votes to representatives in Congress, (i.e the People)
In this way both "stakeholders" the States and the People are represented in the federal government
"The electoral college accomplishes none of the goals of republic style voting you’d like, nor the direct popular vote that others want"
Isn't that basically the goal in the US - balance of power between the states and feds, as well as between democracy and republic? Similar to the house of representatives vs senate.
The states also have control over how they want to divide the votes (proportional, winner take all, etc). Not that it's necessarily fair. But I don't see a straight popular vote being completely fair either (depending on the definition we're using, like equal vs equitable).
Yeah, the independant states is a feature, not a bug.
And afaik, each state can choose how to implement voting for itself. So, they could move to a proportional system for EC votes. (Altough, I personally think that making it based on US wide popular/proportional vote, rather than state wide would be a mistake)
2. Electoral College 1 vote goes to who ever wins each Congressional district in the state, with the 2 state wide Votes going to who wins the entire state
3. Instant Run off or Ranked Choice Voting for all federal positions
4. Removal of party affiliation from ballot, vote for people not parties
5. Congressional districts should be set by non-political entity, like the Postal Service, or some other entity not state legislatures. This one I am less clear on, but gerrymandering would cause huge problems for #2.
I do, because I support the concept of Federalism and I do not believe in a Centralized "America" I believe in 50 independent States, a Republic
I also think popular vote for senate was a mistake. The States need to have power over the federal government not just the people.
The US Constitution reserves powers and rights to both the people AND the States for a reason, that reason is the fact that our system of government is a Federalist Republic, not a strait representative democracy. Nor would I support a transition to a strait representative democracy as I believe the federal government is far far far too powerful today
I would support changes to the Electoral College, like the Wyoming Rule, or requiring all states to delegate their votes Proportionally by congressional district instead of Winner take all, etc but calls for elimination of the Electoral College are short sighted and ill advised