I actually find this article on electoral college reform rather fascinating.
It's less an idea about how to restructure the electoral college than it is an idea about how to short circuit the electoral college if you want to make the electoral college reflect the popular vote. The idea is simple: have a set of states that constitute a electoral majority pass laws that mandate throwing all of their electoral votes behind the winner of the national popular election. It's fucking ingenious. I just don't know if it's legally feasible to have states enter into legally binding contracts to this effect. I mean, it amounts to saying, "Regardless of how people in the state vote, all of the state's electoral votes are going to be decided by my friend Ed here..." That seems like it should violate some state constitutions...
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