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In reply to the discussion: Only thing worse than The Electoral College are right-wing halfway measures to change it. [View all]markpkessinger
(8,381 posts)... We either have to throw the whole thing out, which would require a Constitutional amendment, or stick with it as it is.
One proposal Republicans have been trying to push (they tried to push it through in Pennsylvania) is to change it so that instead of a per state, winner-take-all allocation of electoral votes, electoral votes would be awarded by Congressional district. That, of course, would make the election of the President subject to the same kind of gerrymandering that has given us a Republican House.
The system is imperfect, but a constitutional amendment is tough, and as the OP points out, most of the proposals for changing the way the electoral college works are really nothing more than Republican schemes to skew elections in their favor.