[EM] NPV vs Condorcet

[Jonathan Lundell]

On Oct 20, 2008, at 8:54 PM, Dave Ketchum wrote:

> 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.

The small states lose their advantage with NPV; perhaps NPV would make  
it easier, not harder, to implement a better fix.

>
>
> 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.