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This article has a section headed First-past-the-post system which asserts, "The Electoral College employs a first-past-the-post voting system"; the First-past-the-post voting article (FPTP for short -- wikilinked there with a piped wikilink) says, "FPTP is a plurality voting method".
However, the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution says, "The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and [...]" (emphasis mine).
It appears to me that the Electoral College uses a Majoritarian ekectoral system.
Does this article need work in this regard? Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 12:43, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
I see that the {{ discuss}} tag I had placed in the section at issue was removed without comment by this edit. I have replaced that tag with a {{ disputed section}} tag. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 09:46, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
Given the above, I'm wondering what the consensus here might be regarding what the subject of this article is. I presume that the intended subject has something to do with the article title, but I'm not sure exactly what. Perhaps the scope of this discussion ought to be widened to address that. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 13:16, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
This tangential discussion continued in the #Opening paragraph section below.
Following on a part of the discussion here in the #First-past-the-post system section above, I propose that the opening paragraph of this article be rewritten something like the following:
Efforts to reform the United States Electoral College, are ongoing as of 2020 [update]. These efforts generally involve [very brief description of that, expanded in body sections listed in the TOC]
The "ongoing as of" part of that and, possibly, the list of general areas involved can be revised as those efforts develop and either produce results or die out.
Discussion? Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 14:29, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
This edit, adding a subsection on a 2-year term proposal by Brian Bergstein caught my eye. This seems to me to have less weight than similar subsections, and to have undue weight for inclusion. Barring discussion here leading to a consensus to the contrary, I'll probably remove it in a few days. Discussion? Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 20:05, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
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This article has a section headed First-past-the-post system which asserts, "The Electoral College employs a first-past-the-post voting system"; the First-past-the-post voting article (FPTP for short -- wikilinked there with a piped wikilink) says, "FPTP is a plurality voting method".
However, the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution says, "The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and [...]" (emphasis mine).
It appears to me that the Electoral College uses a Majoritarian ekectoral system.
Does this article need work in this regard? Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 12:43, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
I see that the {{ discuss}} tag I had placed in the section at issue was removed without comment by this edit. I have replaced that tag with a {{ disputed section}} tag. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 09:46, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
Given the above, I'm wondering what the consensus here might be regarding what the subject of this article is. I presume that the intended subject has something to do with the article title, but I'm not sure exactly what. Perhaps the scope of this discussion ought to be widened to address that. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 13:16, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
This tangential discussion continued in the #Opening paragraph section below.
Following on a part of the discussion here in the #First-past-the-post system section above, I propose that the opening paragraph of this article be rewritten something like the following:
Efforts to reform the United States Electoral College, are ongoing as of 2020 [update]. These efforts generally involve [very brief description of that, expanded in body sections listed in the TOC]
The "ongoing as of" part of that and, possibly, the list of general areas involved can be revised as those efforts develop and either produce results or die out.
Discussion? Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 14:29, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
This edit, adding a subsection on a 2-year term proposal by Brian Bergstein caught my eye. This seems to me to have less weight than similar subsections, and to have undue weight for inclusion. Barring discussion here leading to a consensus to the contrary, I'll probably remove it in a few days. Discussion? Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 20:05, 23 August 2022 (UTC)