Electoral College Reform
How to Keep, but Improve, the Current System
The Presidential election of 2000 served to highlight both the strengths and the weaknesses of the Electoral College and the essentially indirect method by which the citizens of the United States elect their Presidents. The weaknesses seem at first glance more obvious.It is, at this writing, at least possible that the next President of the United States will not have received a plurality of the popular votes cast by the electorate and will ascend to the office only through the electoral votes of the several States. That, in the best of all possible worlds, is not the most desirable result….
