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Repeal the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, which froze the number of electorals, and reassign electorals by population, so that the electoral college is more in line with the popular vote. The electoral college isn't inherently unrepresentative. That act has made it increasingly so.
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@jameslatimer3600 States didn't have to individually approve previous apportionment acts. There used to be a new act after every census. The 1929 act made things permanent. The number of electorals matches the number of seats in the House. That's what the electoral college was originally about, assigning seats in the house. It was supposed to represent the population. The 1792 act was proportional to population ... "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the third day of March one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, the House of Representatives shall be composed of members elected agreeably to a ratio of one member for every thirty-three thousand persons in each state, computed according to the rule prescribed by the constitution"
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@jfree2737 That was not the intention of the electoral college, at all. It was meant to be proportional.
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@earllsimmins9373 A more parliamentary approach? The leader of the party with the most seats in the house gets to be PM (president)?
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@jfree2737 The concerns you mentioned seemed to imply they were concerned about being proportional. The first apportionment was literally 1 electoral per 33k people, giving zero indication they were concerned about higher populated areas.
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