2 February 2017 - reform the Electoral College

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If we’re having trouble abolishing the Electoral College, I have a reform suggestion. It was originally intended as a form of representative democracy: You vote for an elector you trust, who then votes for a president. It never worked, because the electors announced their votes ahead of time. But that is easy to fix—we only have to move the vote for electors earlier, to before the candidates are known.

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