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2016 Postmortem

forgotmylogin

(7,908 posts) Thu Dec 22, 2016, 01:42 PM Dec 2016

A hypothetical EC reform idea. [View all]

What if every state had a potential 100 electoral college votes, but they can only use a percentage based on voter turnout?

The idea is this negates voter suppression.

If Illinois has a 12% voter turnout, the winner of the state gets 12 EC votes.
If Arkansas has an 8% voter turnout, the winner of the state gets 8 EC votes.

I also think that voting day should be voting week, from Nov 1-8 including the weekend. Along with specialized polling places, voting may be accomplished in any local City Hall/Courthouse, and at at least one post office within every zip code.

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A hypothetical EC reform idea. [View all] forgotmylogin Dec 2016 OP

This would not work. NCTraveler Dec 2016 #1

I agree that it's not perfect. forgotmylogin Dec 2016 #4

so that is a start... texasmomof3 Dec 2016 #2

So if wyoming and CA have the same turnout, they get the same votes? Johnathan146 Dec 2016 #3

I would say yes... forgotmylogin Dec 2016 #5

Since the republicans tend to win more (but smaller) states Johnathan146 Dec 2016 #7

But half of CA and half of WY are 2 completely different things. Garrett78 Dec 2016 #9

It doesn't need reform. It needs to be abolished in favor of the only logical solution mtnsnake Dec 2016 #6

Terrible idea as states with low populations would be even easier to cheat and stuff the ballot box libtodeath Dec 2016 #8