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I'm willing to switch to an electoral trial by bake off.

Here is the thing that scares me. If Republicans make every election cycle this shitty and horrible to witness over and over again I'm going to be so fucking sick of elections in less than a decade.

This exercise of over and over again deteriorating the experience of elections will wear down a part of the populace into saying "FINE! Fuck elections! Go get a king so that I don't have to listen to hateful bilious invective for 9 months out of the year."

I can't be the only one in fear of that type of fatigue to fascism.

This could actually open up the space for third parties. Just need to remove winner-takes-all.

Finally the dems are saying it out loud. They should have been yelling this from the treetops since Bush vs Gore.

Wow, that's crazy a VP candidate for one of the two parties is actually saying this.

Respect.

"but then it would be majority rule!! no faaaaaairrrrr"

-the party of fuck your feelings get over it

If you live in a state that hasn't joined the NPVIC push your state legislature to adopt it.

That'd be great!!!

I live in a deep red state. My vote won't matter as my states EC votes will go for the Republican candidate.

A popular vote would make my vote count finally.

The far easier plan is to simply increase the size of the House of Representatives. All it needs is a change, or repeal, of the Re-Apportionment Act of 1929. Replace it with something like the Wyoming Rule and done.

Not only does that fix Presidential Elections it would also fix or substantially ease a pile of other problems like Gerrymandering by giving the denser population areas the Representation they should have.

The HoR being fixed at only 435 seats is at the core of so many problems in this country.

there wouldn't be a republican president ever again. they won't allow this

I was shocked when I first heard about some people deciding, instead of how many people actually voted for a candidate.

Repubs want an electoral college, because it's the only way they can win

Repubs want to keep gerrymandering because it's the only way they can win

Not to mention that a popular vote would be much more secure, and cheaper.

The republicans will see this as a threat to their way of life. Idiots.

You need 2/3rds majority to pass the constitutional amendment required to make this happen, so as long as Republicans exist this isn't going to ever be the case. It means they'll never win another election.