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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 "The Electoral College is an outdated, undemocratic system that does not reflect our modern society, and it needs to change immediately.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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 18 2016, @12:27AM
The important thing is that candidates must be forced to travel beyond California, New England, and a handful of big cities in the middle. The popular vote would cast nearly all of the land area of the USA into complete dispair. (picture suicide, violence, starvation...) I fear you relish the thought of that. Acceptable changes:
I could maybe agree to having each electoral vote be decided by an equal area of land. (535 regions, averaging 10.7 per state but spanning borders) Alaska would love this.
I could agree to the above, but each electoral vote being split proportionately. That is, a region that includes San Francisco might have given 0.85 votes to Clinton and 0.05 to each of 3 other choices.
If we want to encourage 3rd party success, then also use approval voting. Each candidate get 0.00 to 1.00 votes per region.