[cynwoody]

I would prefer a system where every state adopts the Nebraska/Maine model of awarding electoral votes by Congressional district, with the two “extra” electoral votes in each state awarded to the candidate who wins the state overall.

I agree. I can think of three advantages of tallying the vote by CD:

1. It eliminates the problem of the faithless elector.
2. It firewalls the damage that election fraud can cause. Once you've stuffed enough ballots to steal a CD, there is no point in further stuffing in that CD. You can't steal a whole state by stuffing ballots in a few vulnerable localities.
3. It solves the undue influence urban cesspools have on presidential elections.

Of course, #2 and #3 are why it won't ever go through. Vote fraud is a core competency of the Democrat Party, and the party feeds off those urban cesspools.

[Ronniesque]

I have wondered whether you need an “elector”...would there be an advantage to having the electoral vote be automatic and not requiring a person to actually cast it?

I also like the congressional district idea and the overall winner getting the two extra votes.

In any event, the Electoral College concept is doing its job.

Also wish the states would be the ones choosing senators again. There would always be the check of the people of that state in the election of their own state reps (should the states themselves stop representing their own constituents).