e in the previous paragraph to ever occur. Even if a candidate were to win those eleven states by a very small margin, it is likely that he would not win all of the voting districts in those states. Assume for a moment that a candidate lost all of the voting districts in all thirty-nine other states and Washington D.C., but that he won all the voting districts in the eleven bigger states except one. Assume that the district that he lost was in California. California, for example, has fifty-four electoral votes. This means that it has fifty-two voting districts plus two Senators. If a candidate just barely won a popular vote in all but one of the voting districts and had a majority of the popular vote across the state, he would receive fifty-three of California’s electoral votes. These fifty-three votes added with the ten other states two hundred and sixteen votes would give a candidate two hundred and sixty-nine votes, one short of winning the election. The proposal solves this serious problem as well as others.There are many other good reasons to enact the proposal. First, a called recount of votes would be easier. Instead of having to recount all of the votes in a state, they would only have to recount the votes in the particular districts that are in question. This would save a lot of time and taxpayer’s money. Secondly, it forces the candidates to campaign more vigorously. According to Parkinson, in the present system, candidates tend to only campaign on the larger eleven states. This proposal will force the candidates to campaign to all areas, not just big cities in big states. The third reason is that this system makes every vote count even more. Since the voting pool is by district as oppose to by state, the weight that a single vote carries is higher, because the voting pool is smaller.There is some benefit from having the electoral system as currently established. First, as Parkinson states, the pre...
