[EM] Electoral College-Pragmatic approach

[Richard Moore]

Bart Ingles wrote:

> 
> Richard Moore wrote:
> 
>>It would be harder to make people see the advantages of a new
>>method if adopting that method fails to bring those promised
>>advantages. So abolishing the EC is either a prerequisite or a
>>corequisite to getting a better method in place.
>>
> 
> 
> Only if your focus is the U.S. Presidential election.


Where electoral college abolition is concerned, that is the focus.

> Any real reform
> will probably have to start at the county level anyway, at least the way
> elections are conducted in California.  CA Elections are administered at
> the county level, so cities tend to want to wait and see what the county
> will support.  And of course higher-level elections would take more work
> & resources to change.


I wasn't saying that local EM reforms should be contingent on EC abolition.
I was responding to the idea that national EM reforms should precede any
efforts at EC abolition.


 -- Richard