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Old 02-November-2007, 10:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Maksutov View Post
Obviously the electoral process in this country needs two immediate reforms, the first being the abolition of the Electoral College, and, second, radical changes to the state primary systems.
I remember an article in Discover magazine from about a decade ago, in which a mathematician showed that the Electoral College system (assuming the winner of the popular vote in a state gets all of the electoral votes for that state) actually increases voter power over a simple nation-wide popular vote. The classic analogy is the World Series: a team can win the series while scoring fewer overall runs.

Unfortunately, I can't find the article in my Big Box 'o Back Issues so I haven't been able to track down the journal article it's based on.

I do agree that the primary system needs a major overhaul. It's too bad that some of the more interesting alternate systems won't work here because they require the voters to be either educated or honest...
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