We all know generally what it is, but most dont know any specifics. The electoral college was designed as a compromise between agricultural states and industrious states. The (mostly) southern agricultural states were worried about the northern states and their higher population having too much power when deciding on the presidency. Today things have changed. You have major population centers and you have rural areas in the same states. While these 2 areas may be part of the same state, they compromise two vastly different political ideologies. Just as a compromise was reached to spread the power between all states in the 1790's, I think now is the time to give everyone an equal vote. Lets be honest here. If you are a democrat in a Georgia statewide federal election, your vote means nothing. Just like the Republicans in New York, you are so heavily outnumbered your vote in nothing more than symbolic. Right now some states require all of the states electors to vote in accordance to the popular vote, some states vote in proportion to the popular vote, some can just vote for whoever they want. Lets get rid of all BS involved and simplify the process. Lets make the process simple, clean, and transparent. Lets replace the current version of the electoral college.

This is the 2008 Presidential election map from PA.



Do you really think the entire state of PA had their voices heard? Or was it just the major cities that decided for the entire state?




I want to make the process quite simple. Very few people know who your state electors are without looking it up, do you? Lets make our Electors the House members we just voted in or reelected to another term. We have 435 members of the House, I think thats plenty of electors. We dont need the 538 that the Constitution directs. For my plan, Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 would have to be deleted by Constitutional Amendment.

Under my plan, every member of the House would vote in accordance with the popular vote in their district, and only in their district. If a GOP member is elected or re-elected to a seat in the House and a Dem gets the majority vote for President, that GOP House member must cast his vote for a Dem president.


Like I said, this plan is simple, its transparent, and I think it allows 100% of Americans to have their vote count for something.


What say you?