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Re:International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees by panglott on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @08:35AM (#14255110)
The electoral college system has obviously been a terrible idea for years. Plenty of people also vocally complained about it in 2000, for example.

But changing it requires changing the Constitution, which requires a supermajority of state legislatures—and the electoral college shifts power from citizens and the federal government to states.

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Re:International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees by sbov on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @09:49AM (#14255573)
It actually doesn't require changing the Constitution. States are allowed to allocate votes however they want. Several states have passed laws that say: when enough states pass a similar law to determine the presidency, all of our electoral college votes will go to the winner of the national popular vote.

This hack lowers the barrier, but not by enough, at least yet.

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