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Originally Posted by VayaConDios
1. Scrap the electoral college
2. Implement instant run-off voting
This is close to the correct answer. I'm not sure that IRV would be the best system, but any system in which voters rank their preferances (rather than just vote for one candidate) would be much better than the current system.
You could argue about weater it should be instant run-off, borda count, Condorcet (my preferance), range voting, or some other system, but it seems clear that any of these would be better than the first past the post system that we use.
Any state could use one of these systems to alocate their electoral votes. (They could still give all of their votes to one candidate to preserve the power of their voting block). This wouldn't require any constitutional changes. The "problem" is that this would make third praties viable, so the two parties in charge won't let this happen.
I think there are some states in which this could be done by ballot initative, so those would be the best places to start. Unfortunately, in my state, ballot initatives are often ignored.