The Electoral College: Arguments

[DWPerry]

Assuming the Feds "take-over" the Presidential election:

Would all FEC filed Candidates be allowed on the ballot of a National Popular Vote Ballot?
Who prints the ballots, the Feds, the States, or the Municipalities?
Would IRV be used?

[DWPerry]

If all candidates were listed that obtained Ballot Access in atleast one state there would have been 16 candidates in 2000 & 17 Candidates in 2004.

Not a "LONG" ballot at all.
For a LONG ballot see here https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=2003&fips=6&f=1&off=5&elect=0&minper=0

[DWPerry]

The current system actually encourages people to be on the ballot only in some states. Lincoln won without receiving any votes in many states (of course this was before the secret ballot).

It was also before the Government printed the ballots.

[DWPerry]

Nice, but why not just establish the popular vote?

Because we don't have a democracy, we have a representative republic.

“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”
Thomas Jefferson

[DWPerry]

State	EV	Bush	Kerry	Nader	Badnarik	Peroutka	Cobb	Write-ins	Peltier	Brown	None
AL	339	212	125	1	1
AL	44	27	16	1
AZ	350	192	156		2
AR	202	110	91	1
CA	2070	919	1124	3	8	4	7		5
CO	310	161	146	2	1
CT	248	109	134	2	1		2
DE	59	27	32
DC	43	4	39
FL	1146	597	539	5	2	1	1			1
GA	587	341	243		3
HI	87	40	47
ID	92	63	28		1
IL	867	386	475	1	5
IN	456	274	179		3
IA	222	111	110	1
KS	197	122	72	2	1
KY	311	185	124	2
LA	331	189	140	1		1
ME	99	45	53	1
ME	383	164	214	2	1	1	1
MA	462	170	286	1	2		2	1
MI	735	351	376	4	2	1	1
MN	362	173	185	2	1		1
MS	212	126	85	1
MO	423	225	195		2	1
MT	69	41	27	1
NE	126	84	41	1
NV	136	68	65	1	1						1
NH	93	45	47	1
NJ	584	270	310	3	1
NM	127	64	62	1
NY	1290	517	754	17	2
NC	602	337	263		2
ND	49	31	17	1
OH	861	438	419		2	2
OK	257	169	88
OR	250	118	128		1	1	1	1
PA	946	459	482		3	1	1
RI	77	30	46	1
SC	304	176	125	1	1	1
SD	56	34	21	1
TN	435	247	185	2	1
TX	1376	841	526	2	7
UT	147	105	38	2	1	1
VT	47	18	28	1
VA	522	280	238		2	2
WA	423	193	224	3	2	1
WV	145	81	63	1
WI	403	199	201	2	1
WY	37	26	11
Total	19999	10194	9623	75	63	18	17	2	5	1	1
EV %		50.97	48.12	0.38	0.32	0.09	0.09	0.01	0.03	0.01	0.01
Popular %		50.73	48.27	0.38	0.32	0.12	0.10	0.03	0.02	0.01	0.00

How did you determine the amount of EV's?