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2016 Postmortem

NCTraveler

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1. This would not work.

Reply to forgotmylogin (Original post)

Thu Dec 22, 2016, 01:45 PM

Dec 2016

"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 do find your overall thought to be interesting. That metric itself wouldn't work.

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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