
doi: 10.2139/ssrn.2324612
Electoral College Reform is a renewed topic of conversation in the wake of each presidential election. This paper explores the elections of 1800, 1824, 1876, 1888, and 2000 and the failures of the Electoral College to elect the popular vote's president, as well as looking at the 2012 election and how the College nearly failed again. With these elections in mind, I propose the nation-wide adoption of the Congressional District Plan method of distributing electoral votes. This plan maintains the constitutional structure of the Electoral College while concentrating the vote distribution to the congressional districts of a state rather than on a state-wide basis, and provides a more accurate representation of the will of the people of the United States. Included in this paper are the outcomes the elections of 1968-2012 under the Congressional District Plan, which indicates a potential tie in the 2012 election.
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