♪alt13
Well-Known Member
The person with the highest votes wins the election.
Whereas, with the electoral college, you may receive the highest number of electoral college votes and still lose if the overall votes are spread out so much that no one candidate can achieve the 280ish necessary votes to win.
If this happens, then the election will be decided by the house.
Which is why, if you abolish this rule I believe it would help a 3rd party candidate.
Right now many won't vote 3rd party because they know that their candidate won't win the necessary votes for the electoral college. However, if they knew that all they had to do was split the vote enough to obtain a simple majority, then I think more might vote 3rd party Candidate.
Nope
That's a plurality not a simple majority