'@Iateapenguin' then we agree on something, I think it would be much better if they switched to something in between of the French and the German system.
I think it is important to retain the federal stucture, but it is completely unfair that one state can be won, by a single candidate.
I did a calculation, and if every state rewarded electoral votes based on the proportion each candidate had, rather then the winner-takes-all, system,
then Trump would have only gotten 264 electoral votes.
Clinton would have gotten 261
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and Jill Stein and Evan McMullin would both have gotten away with a single vote each.
This situation would have made Johnson the kingmaker, or resulted in a second election round, depending on the method of choosing candidate, both would be more fair then the present system.
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'@Iateapenguin' then we agree on something, I think it would be much better if they switched to something in between of the French and the German system.
I think it is important to retain the federal stucture, but it is completely unfair that one state can be won, by a single candidate.
I did a calculation, and if every state rewarded electoral votes based on the proportion each candidate had, rather then the winner-takes-all, system,
then Trump would have only gotten 264 electoral votes.
Clinton would have gotten 261
Johnson 11
and Jill Stein and Evan McMullin would both have gotten away with a single vote each.
This situation would have made Johnson the kingmaker, or resulted in a second election round, depending on the method of choosing candidate, both would be more fair then the present system.