[EM] NPV vs Condorcet

Dave Ketchum davek at clarityconnect.com
Mon Oct 20 20:54:25 PDT 2008


It may be difficult, but useless to claim impossible.

Could start the thinking by considering weighting the votes from the small 
states, consistent with the advantage they get via the Electoral College.

DWK

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:15:45 -0500 Paul Kislanko wrote:
> Re:
> Is the Electoral College recognized as having lived ot its useful life?  If 
> so, perhaps we could do up a worthwhile constitutional amendment.
> 
> For the same reason we have an Electoral College there's no way to get a
> Constitutional Amendmendt on the ballot - such a suggestion would have to
> pass the Senate, wherein even the smallest state has two representatives who
> would be against the idea.
> 
> For the same reason the EC is bad, it can't ever be changed - it gives an
> inordinate amount of authority to the "small" states, and those states, now
> that they have it, are not likely to give it up.
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