Through the years, several plans have been suggested to reform, or fix, the electoral college. Under the Proportional Plan, each candidate would get a share of the electoral vote. This share would equal his or her share of the popular vote.
The Proportional Plan is yet another option that sounds good on the surface, but that creates problems in practice. Constant fighting would erupt over election tallies. Potentially, at least one electoral vote in each of the 50 states would be open to dispute every presidential election year.
It is the most complicated option in the electoral college system and could take an already confusing system and make it even worse by somehow trying to find a way to award one-fifth of a vote.
And because this type of election is so similar to a direct popular election system, it contains many of the same downfalls: multiple candidacies, close elections, runoffs, greater potential for fraud, and greater incentives for extremist candidates to join the fray.
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