Originally Posted by Circe

The main problem with the electoral college is that de jure, your vote means absolutely nothing. If you and almost every other person in your county voted for someone, the college could just turn around and put their vote in for somebody else regardless. Before anyone goes crazy at me for saying the US is a democracy, it should be, and a system like that prevents it from being one. The winner-takes-all system is actually the only one that works with proportional representation so you may as well switch to that. It might encourage more people to actually bother voting when they realise they don't have to go with their state's flow to have any impact.