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Senator Boxer Introduces Bill to Eliminate Electoral College
"This is the only office in the land where you can get more votes and still lose the presidency," Boxer said in a statement. "The Electoral College is an outdated, undemocratic system that does not reflect our modern society, and it needs to change immediately. Every American should be guaranteed that their vote counts."
[...] "When all the ballots are counted, Hillary Clinton will have won the popular vote by a margin that could exceed two million votes, and she is on track to have received more votes than any other presidential candidate in history except Barack Obama," Boxer said.
Trump will be the fifth president in U.S. history to win the election despite losing the popular vote. George W. Bush won the most recent such election, in 2000.
Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3wLQz-LgrM
(Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday November 17 2016, @08:04PM
What we need is proportional voting or multiplicity voting,
Actually we don't need that either.
This constant railing against first past the post is nothing but an intellectual exercise that has taken on a life of its own among a group of dissatisfied math nerds.
Is solves nothing, is no less likely to be gamed, and is far less likely to be trusted by the voters.
Its the perfect storm of making elections more contested and more challenged and less final while making it impossible for the voter to know how his vote was actually applied.
Why is it you discount the possibility of removing the electoral college but then substitute something even less trustworth.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday November 17 2016, @08:07PM
Ranked-choice and approval voting are superior and require no elimination of the Electoral College since they produce a single winner. They do however favor third parties and will be forever opposed by the two party establishment.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by krishnoid on Thursday November 17 2016, @09:04PM
Would this have helped Hilary if third-party voters ranked her below their primary choices, but above Trump?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday November 17 2016, @11:24PM
Yeah, that is one application of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting [wikipedia.org]
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 17 2016, @09:37PM
The constant railing against first past the post is due to it causing people to vote for the 'lesser evil' instead of candidates they actually like and mostly agree with. That's not truly democratic, and until that is fixed our status as a representative republic will remain in question. We're not electing representatives, but evil politicians who we believe will do less damage than their opponent.