Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "Problems with the Electoral College ft. Extra Credits" video.

  1. My suggestion, use a modified version of the Webster/Sainte-Laguë method to pick representatives to the electoral college based on votes within each state. Then add another 50 representatives to the electoral college that's picked on the Webster/Sainte-Laguë method for the country as a whole. Basically leveling seats. Then let them negotiate who to pick based on that. The same system could be used for a parliament honestly. (It's basically what we use here in Norway, except that our parliament function as our electorial college in the above example) By making the body picking the leader of the country multi party you also get incentives towards dividing up the powers of your president among more people who isn't picked by one person but by those that can agree to cooperate. So instead of a president we have a prime minister leading the country from one party in the winning coalition but she's leading other ministers of various different fields who all represent different political parties and therefore points of view. So the executive branch can make more nuanced decisions. The legeslative branch is also multi-party with alliances shifting on a case by case basis allowing different laws to be enacted based on what there's actually a major support for meaning that voting for a party that doesn't get a majority in the parliament and that's slightly different from one of the other parties makes sense. As those other smaller parties all shift the majority for individual issues even if they might have different allegiances when it comes to picking a executive body. So the far left and far right might agree on a individual policy even as they disagree about who should lead the country. And since the sides and the middle all have multiple different parties competing for voters they can't really afford to refuse to cooperate with other parties on laws they actually agree with as people who want those laws can always vote for someone else without being essentially blackmailed like in the US where a vote for a third party essentially increases the chance of someone even worse then the biggest party on your own side getting into power. Here you can vote for whoever you want. And depending on what alliances are formed before an election you can get multiple different cabinets. So for instance we've had two cabinets lead by a centrist party that didn't have a majority of the votes themselves because of how the parliament elects cabinets. Two prime ministers from a small centrist party because that's the only option that managed to get a majority vote in the parliament. They did so with votes from parties that didn't take part in the cabinet and who where free to vote for something else then the cabinet within the parliament. And honestly they where one of the best cabinets we've ever had. Being a minority government also endured that they had a real humility towards the parliament and people.
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