[Congressman Billybob]

Originally, most states used the district election method. At the beginning, Virginia had nearly one-third of the nation's Electoral College votes. Under the leadership of Thomas Jefferson, it had held out for district voting.

But finally, Jefferson reluctantly agreed that Virginia had to switch to winner-take-all because other states with that process were overcoming Virginia in their influence in Washington. A joint method of action, where states act conditionally depending on the same action being taken by states with a total of 75% of the Electoral College votes, would do the trick.

I wrote this reform up in Contingencies, the Journal of the American Academy of Actuaries, in their September-October issue in 2000. The math is all there.

John / Billybob

[Long Cut]

Thanks for the info! Do you perhaps have a link to the write-up?