This is the first book on the U.S. presidential election system
to analyze the basic principles underlying the design of the
existing system and those at the heart of competing proposals for
improving the system. The book discusses how the use of some
election rules embedded in the U.S. Constitution and in the
Presidential Succession Act may cause skewed or weird election
outcomes and election stalemates. The book argues that the act may
not cover some rare though possible situations which the Twentieth
Amendment authorizes Congress to address. Also, the book questions
the constitutionality of the National Popular Vote Plan to
introduce a direct popular presidential election "de facto,"
without amending the Constitution, and addresses the plan's
"Achilles' Heel." In particular, the book shows that the plan may
violate the Equal Protection Clause from the Fourteenth Amendment
of the Constitution. Numerical examples are provided to show that
the counterintuitive claims of the NPV originators and proponents
that the plan will encourage presidential candidates to "chase"
every vote in every state do not have any grounds. Finally, the
book proposes a plan for improving the election system by combining
at the national level the "one state, one vote" principle -
embedded in the Constitution - and the "one person, one vote"
principle. Under this plan no state loses its current Electoral
College benefits while all the states gain more attention of
presidential candidates.
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