Real electoral reform starts with

[KingFlorez]

The abolishment of the electoral college.

[petgoat]

1. Okay, I understand how you can feel the electoral college is

antidemocratic. Sometimes someone can get elected despite losing the
popular vote. And maybe I'm wrong but I believe it's possible for a
corrupt Congress to refuse to accept the electoral votes from certain
states and thus seat someone who won neither the electoral majority
nor the popular majority. And the tendency is for the
non-battleground states to be left off the campaign trail. And the
vital importance of the battleground states encourages local election
officials to cheat.

I don't know why the founding fathers instituted the electoral college
system, but the Ohio shenanigans showed one good reason for keeping
it: When the election has been run in a shameful and illegal fashion
in one or more states, it's worthwhile for people to investigate the
wrongdoing, and they can challenge the election in court, and
challenge the electors' votes in Congress. If all the national office
votes were thrown in one bucket, nobody would ever investigate
wrongdoing at the state level because unless you were talking about
California or New York, it wouldn't affect the results anyway.

So if you want to abolish the electoral college, can you please
propose an alternative mechanism for isolating and punishing corrupt
elections for national office?