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The Electoral College: Keep or Replace? A Soho Forum Debate
The Soho Forum Debates
The Proportional Representation Debate
Richard Nixon: I think the way in which if you look at the constitution let's say what it says to an appointment in such manner as a legislation may direct the number of electors right. There's nothing which basically says it has to be an all-nothing system and so I think what you can do is you can have flexibility within it. The challenge is you can't get one state or any big state to change it on its own right because California is not going to change it unless it knows Texas will changed it. That's right. So you've got a coordination problem which is why either you know we've tried to suggest as many had before that it almost raises an equal protection problem
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