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To: jlallen who wrote (83495)	11/3/2004 2:06:40 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 794189

This election proved that the EC is broken, especially in an age where candidates concentrate enormous sums on negative advertising in a few key states. This increases tremendously the odds of an EC loss accompanied by a decisive popular vote win, as almost happened in this election. It will be easy to fix this: just require proportional allocation of EC votes based on the state vote. Small states shouldn't be unhappy, since they will still retain their fixed two extra EC votes. But this change lowers considerably the odds of an electoral college win but popular vote loss. And it eliminates the specter of an EC win and a decisive popular vote loss.