The leading solutions won’t necessarily work:

• The National Popular Vote Compact effort has made commendable progress but could fall short in purple and red states, and could be opposed by courts. It is also politically divisive and potentially unstable.
• Maine/Nebraska-style allocation of electors by district injects gerrymandering into the presidential election and does not create a true national campaign.

We need a new idea.

Election Reformers Network is helping to promote a Top-2 Proportional Allocation Amendment:

• To end winner-take-all (which causes most of the problem and is not in the Constitution), states are required to allocate their electoral votes proportionally to the top two vote-getters in the state.
• The proportional calculation is carried out to the right of the decimal point – this means fractional electoral votes are available in every state for every candidate, creating a true national campaign.
• Significantly reduces the impact of a “spoiler candidate.”
• Elections remain state-based; there is no pooling of results across state lines, and states can easily add in ranked choice voting or other innovations as they see fit.
• No change in the formula for number of electors per state. (The disproportionate impact of voters in small states can be reduced separately by increasing the size of the House of Representatives).
• Fixes “black swan” problems like a presidential election being “Thrown to the House.”

To learn more, see the links below for a comprehensive PowerPoint presentation, an independent documentary on the subject, and a December 2020 article detailing the need for change in GOVERNING.