Are you accepting scenarios where zero people turn out to vote in a bunch of states?
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iirc if 51% of people vote for candidate a in all the highest-power states (wyoming, rhode island, etc) and 0% vote for candidate a in all the other states, candidate a wins with low 20s% popular vote
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That's the algorithm, except for two things: 50% + 1 for candidate a in the high-power states and ... drumroll ... a turnout of 1 in those states, and 100% in the others. which gives you a ratio like 35:200,000,000 or something.
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Something like this 59/41 is apparently theoretically possible:https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1313346398520258560 …
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If you like up votes in California and New York with higher than normal turnout but only phone it in with rust belt states, a lot
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I don’t think there’s anything in the federal Constitution about how voting should proceed, that’s left to the states. Why can’t California use a high quality survey to determine how delegates should vote in the electoral college. Voting problems solved!
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What could possibly go wrong?
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Mathematician Paulo’s weighs in (from 2016 ):https://twitter.com/JohnAllenPaulos/status/778706882059866112 …
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With faithless electors you can just go all thr way to a president elected with zero votes.
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In 1860, Lincoln won the electoral college with less than 40% of the popular vote. Even if his three opponents had all combined their popular votes, Lincoln would *still* have won the EC. This result was what drove the political logic of Secession in the South.
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Interesting. We seem approaching that same breaking point with 2000 and 2016 electoral fails. Things are different now than in 1860. Both parties are co-opted so its hard to say how things will play out.
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