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Is it true that TWO electoral colleges are better than one? Improving the American political system by adding a second “mega-region”-based electoral college.

Oct 12, 2020

Culture, Law, Government, & Politics

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Background: Every four years, interest is re-kindled in the odd “Electoral College”-based method of tallying up American presidential votes. Since the electoral votes are actually assigned on a per-state[*] basis (Figure 1), this has the side effect of making the presidential elections hinge on a few “battleground” districts—tiny subsets of swing states whose voting outcome…