Electoral College: any changes coming?

[Ebowed]

I propose we give 229 electoral votes to North Dakota, and 229 to Rhode Island.  Then we'd always have a tie, and every other state would be useless.

[Redefeatbush04]

I propose we give 229 electoral votes to North Dakota, and 229 to Rhode Island.  Then we'd always have a tie, and every other state would be useless.

lol. excellent

Here is an extremely radical idea which would require a constitutional amendment that I put very little thought into:

I think we should get rid of it and replace it with a electoral college/proportional allocation/district system in which the states have (5X-2) the current number of electoral votes, and in place of winner-take-all votes are awarded like this:

2X current number of votes to the winner in the previous method.
2X current number of votes divided so that percentage of popular vote matches percentage of votes


1 vote for each congressional district. Districts to be drawn by 12 person bipartisan commisions of individuals chosen by state party heads.
 Ex:

Rhode Island - 18 electoral votes

8 votes automatically to Kerry
5 votes given to kerry through proportional allocation
3 votes given to bush through proportional alllocation
1 vote given to Kerry for RI-1
1 vote given to Kerry for RI-2

END RESULT:

Kerry = 15
Bush  = 03





Pennsylvania (2000) = 113

46 votes to Gore for winning state
24 votes to Gore through proportional allocation
22 votes to Bush through proportional allocation
11 votes to Gore for winning districts (including PA-13)
10 votes to Bush for winning districts

END RESULT:

81 Gore
32 Bush

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Here's an idea. Have a collection of states, which would probably be primarily big states, but also perhaps no so big safe states. These states form an organization, and amend their constitution to give all of their electoral votes to the winners of that organization.

If that organizatione ever gets 270 EV, you'll have all of these small states on their hands and knees begging for a change to a popular vote.

[A18]

No, you'll have the people of the states in that organization pissed off that their state has no actual say.