Electoral College or Popular Vote?

[defe07]

I have an idea! What about the following idea?

Why don't we allocate the electoral votes from each state by county? If you want to have an idea as to what I'm proposing, I'd suggest going to this website:

http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P12/ID-R

[defe07]

I always thought that a good way to reform the Electoral College would be to give each voter a number of Electoral Votes equal to their state's total number of Presidential Electors.

This would allow for cleaner campaigning on behalf of the Democratic and Republican candidates, who usually go into negative attack ads trying to get all the undecided/swing voters.

So, if you live in Wyoming and get 3 electoral votes, or in California and you get 55 electoral votes, candidates would have to go after your votes.

BTW, what I'm proposing isn't a violation of the "one-man/one-vote rule".

[defe07]

This would be like Illinois' cumulative voting system, where voters get a number of votes equal to the number of seats and they can allocate their votes anyway they want. This is what I'm proposing for the Electoral College, let voters in every state get a number of electoral votes equal to the number of electoral votes to be cast in that state.

If you live in Wyoming, you'll get 3 electoral votes. If you live in California, you get 55 electoral votes.

[defe07]

Sometimes I wonder, what if each state or region were to choose its own Presidential candidate?