Proposed Electoral College Amendment

Abstract

This paper presents a proposed constitutional amendment reforming the Electoral College. This draft proposal was originally included in an earlier form in my proposed Bipartisan Constitutional Reform Amendments previously posted on SSRN. My sincere hope is that all these proposals may garner broad, consensus, bipartisan support, and help provide a partial path forward in the nation's deeply polarized current political climate. This proposed amendment would reform and modify the Electoral College system of electing the President and Vice President, while preserving its basic constitutional structure. It balances the need to more closely reflect the popular vote (guaranteeing that this would be the basis for selection of electors), while also preserving the slight advantage given to small states in the longstanding constitutional structure. The paper includes an introduction (pp. 1-14), explaining the text of the proposal (pp. 15-19).