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  Simple solution (no amendment, majority votes in the house and senate only) is to simply expand the size of the House of Representatives by ~150 to 250 seats.  The math works.  The logic works.  Has the benefit of being the right thing to do.
context: Meanwhile Republican states are changing rules to be more like the electoral college, requiring a majority of counties or districts to pass ballot measures instead of a majority of people. >
  
  It's been a danger since 1824 when John Quincy Adams beat Andrew Jackson despite losing the popular vote.
  And especially recently. A republican president hasn't won the popular vote since 2004. >
  
  It's always been a danger to democracy.
  It was invented to disenfranchise the people.
  So rich assholes have all the power.  Just like all other times in history.  You're either connected or you are fucked. >
  
  Making sure the president has both sufficient popular support to govern and that his popular support is sufficiently distributed throughout the country to enable him to govern effectively: is fascism conceived by the framers of the constitution to fix the problems of other election methods. But actually was meant to disenfranchise modern day democrats. Big. Brain. Moves. >
  
  The electoral college has always been a danger to the people. It wasn't set up for the people. It was set up for the plutocrats. 
  America is a plutocracy and it's weird people are just now looking into that. >
  
  Do away electoral college. Complete shutdown election holiday. Mandatory vote under penalty of law. National election, national popular results. >
  
  All very good ideas; except for the 'mandatory vote under penalty the law' idea.
  It's in all of our best interests if the stupid stay home on election day.  If one is too ignorant to understand why it's important to vote, then they don't need to vote and drag the rest of us down. >
  
  Im going against my nature there. Ppl ARE stupid, trump for instance. I think ppl as a whole are not stupid they just dont participate for a variety of reasons, but if put under the gun they will make correct choices and Rs will be a footnote in history. In fact i think they think the same. Which is why they make voting difficult.