December 3, 2016
EDITOR,
The debate has started again as to whether the US Constitution should be
amended in order to change the presidential election process. Some promote
eliminating the Electoral College in favor of a direct popular vote for
president while others believe the Electoral College should remain
unchanged.
Just as compromise solved the initial problems of the framers so
it is that compromise can solve this problem. The solution is to change the
electoral votes to electoral points and reward each candidate a percentage
of points based on the percentage of popular votes received in each state.
This would eliminate the “winner take all” system thus allowing for all the
votes to count. A voter is more apt to believe their vote counted when a
percentage of popular votes are taken into account rather than the “all or
nothing” system currently in existence. Further, this new system would
integrate the desire for a popular vote for president with the need for the
individual states to determine who actually gets elected.
As for political primaries the number of delegates awarded in each state
should be determined by the percentage of votes won by each candidate.
For 2016 multiplying the percentage of votes each candidate received
{in each state} times the number of electoral votes {in each state} results
in the following: Clinton 256.985 and Trump 253.482.
Joe Bialek
4233 River Ridge Drive
Cleveland, Ohio 44109
216-744-8352
