federalist50
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The debate has started again as to whether the US Constitution should be amended in order to change the presidential election process. Some promote
eliminating the Electoral College in favor of a direct popular vote for president while others believe the Electoral College should remain unchanged. Just as compromise solved the initial problems of the framers so it is that compromise can solve this problem. The solution is to change the electoral votes to electoral points and reward each candidate a percentage of points based on the percentage of popular votes received in each state.
This would eliminate the "winner take all" system thus allowing for all the votes to count. A voter is more apt to believe their vote counted when a percentage of popular votes are taken into account rather than the "all or nothing" system currently in existence. Further, this new system would integrate the desire for a popular vote for president with the need for the individual states to determine who actually gets elected.
As for political primaries the number of delegates awarded in each state should be determined by the percentage of votes won by each candidate.
For 2016 multiplying the percentage of votes each candidate received {in each state} times the number of electoral votes {in each state} results in the following: Clinton 256.985 and Trump 253.482.
This so called debate is a complete waste of time, because it is never going to happen! The Founding Fathers established a democratic republic, one in which they gave more power to the states instead of the three branches of government. As far as our election system goes they were worried about the population centers of New York, Boston and Philadelphia to have undue influence in electing a president. All states have representation, since each state has two senator's and representatives based on population. For instance, California has 55 and New Hampshire has 4. The electoral system is based on a candidate having to have broad support across the country in order to secure enough electoral votes and be elected. This is how we have elected president's since George Washington!