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SamuelRSmith on 28 November 2016
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On the vote recount... the President doesn't like it, the Clinton campaign doesn't like it, Trump doesn't like it, the electoral commissions of the states involved don't like it, Democratic operatives don't like it, Stein herself has said there's no evidence of fraud. The odds of this affecting the Presidency is 0%.

I personally think it's just an elaborate way for Stein to get the names, addresses, and email addresses of millions of liberals that the Greens couldn't tap into during the election.

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On the Electoral College, some comments:

1) Electoral college votes are supposed to be apportioned based on the number of House representatives in each state + the number of Senators. The number of House members has effectively been capped at 435 members since 1940.

This cap was not the original design, and results in distortion in the number of EC votes that states have.

2) The EC is not democratic, but it's not supposed to be. Much of the Federal structure is not democratic at all. There are other aspects of the system that are further from "one person one vote". The Senate is two per state, no matter how many people living in the state - and this is the only part of the Constitution that cannot be amended.

The undemocratic Senate is also responsible for approving Presidential appointees, and requires a 2/3 majority of the Senate to approve foreign treaties.

3) States have the ability to control how their EC votes are divvied up. Both Maine and Nebraska have taken some steps to introduce a more "proportional" outcome. More states should do this, and should experiment with all different kinds of processes. They could also increase the penalties for "rogue" electors.

4) For me, rather than eliminate the EC, I'd like to see an increase in House Reps, increased penalties for rogue electors, alternate voting, and longer voting times (say from midnight Wednesday through to midnight Saturday), the elimination of party names from the Ballot, and reinstatement of the right to vote for felons.

Alternate voting: people vote for two candidates. They put a "1" in their first choice, and a "2" in their second choice. All the "1" votes are counted, if no candidate receives 50% then the worst performing candidate is eliminated, and their "2" votes are added to the total. This is done continuously until one candidate reaches the 50% mark.

Whether this is done at the state level and the entire pot of EC votes go to the winner, or on a congressional-district basis (with the extra 2 going to the overall winner) could be decided by the states.