The Electoral College - Reform Options. Reform Options for the Electoral College Reform Options for the Electoral College and the Election of the US President (also, be sure to visit our page of frequently asked questions about reform): Direct Election with Instant Runoff Voting.
Question 3. Binding Proposal. National Bonus Plan. Congressional District Method. Direct Vote with Plurality Rule. Proportional Allocation of Electoral Votes. Direct Election with Instant Run-Off Voting. The Electoral College - Origin and History. By William C.
Kimberling, Deputy Director FEC National Clearinghouse on Election Administration In order to appreciate the reasons for the Electoral College, it is essential to understand its historical context and the problem that the Founding Fathers were trying to solve. They faced the difficult question of how to elect a president in a nation that: was composed of thirteen large and small States jealous of their own rights and powers and suspicious of any central national government contained only 4,000,000 people spread up and down a thousand miles of Atlantic seaboard barely connected by transportation or communication (so that national campaigns were impractical even if they had been thought desirable) believed, under the influence of such British political thinkers as Henry St.
Origins of the Electoral College. The Second Design and the 12th Amendment. Question 2. First Design of the Electoral College. Early Ideas on How to Elect a President. Question 1. Early Influences of the Electoral College. Challenges Founding Fathers Faced Before Electoral College. Electoral College Votes Per State.