EveKaua'i ,

The present problem of the Electoral College can be solved relatively easy not by abolishment, but an adjustment and some arithmetic. Instead of Winner Takes All - which renders millions of votes moot - why not allocate accordingly?



While I find the figures confusing (California has 55 electoral votes, which averages out to 1 vote per 723,272,727 residents; Wisconsin has 5, which translates to one vote per 588,220 residents, while Hawai’i has a whopping 4 votes averaging out to only 350k of the islands’ state’s population!), in principle, however, tallying the votes and attributing them per party will, with a handful of exceptions (i.e. votes for the Independents and Greens and other third parties), restore balance and fairness to the system simply by allocating collective votes for a particular party an electoral vote, statewide.



If, for example, in the state of a large state such as California, a third party should ever accrue sufficient votes statewide to reach or surpass a total of 723,272,727, then it would be allocated one electoral vote; still not sufficient to put that party into the White House, of course, but providing appeasement to those who voted for a third party as well as providing a possible progression in the direction of the viability of an alternative to the current two party system some time for the future.



In the event that there should be a tie, i.e. neither Republican nor Democrat obtain the necessary 270 electoral votes, then the winner is the party with the most electoral votes - which will then approximate the popular vote and therefore reflect voters’ choices much more accurately than is presently the case.