[EM] In defense of the Electoral College (was Re: Making a Bad

[Jonathan Lundell]

On Nov 8, 2008, at 6:49 PM, Kathy Dopp wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Jonathan Lundell  
> <jlundell at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>>> I.e. IRV would necessitate that the federal government be  
>>> responsible
>>> for counting all the nation's ballots if IRV were used to elect the
>>> President - so we can expect all IRV/STV proponents to oppose  
>>> national
>>> popular vote for president.
>>
>> You can expect it all you like, but you'd be wrong.
>>
>
> Really?  So you support having the federal government count all the
> ballots for all US citizens?  Exactly who and how do you imagine that
> could be done?

Think of it as a ranked choice: IRV > NPV > EC.

That wasn't so hard, was it?