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View submission: George Takei keeping it real.
You can’t just get rid of the two party system without abandoning the electoral college and in this climate you’re never getting a constitutional amendment passed.
The electoral college makes the maths impossible.
Comment by lenzflare at 21/11/2024 at 16:26 UTC
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It's not so much the electoral college as the first past the post voting system. Any FPTP system will tend towards having two major parties, because splitting your end of the political spectrum on two parties while the other end remains unified never ends well for the split end.
Comment by Magical_discorse at 21/11/2024 at 23:17 UTC
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Actually, you don't need to amend the federal government's constitution. The states are allowed to choose the method by which their elector's are chosen. If enough states were to amend their constitution to select their electors by popular vote such that their votes totaled 270, a popular vote system could be established within the electoral college system.
One thing that I am torn about though, is whether this should be a thing that makes it ineffective until enough states have passed it, or effective immediately, but only counting the votes of the states that have ratified it.