Perhaps the attached will only serve to
get a rise out of Rob Richie, but I believe that NPV poses both serious
methodological problems for American democracy as well as substantive problems.
Attached, in the form of testimony, are my arguments as to why direct elections
are a bad idea and what alternative approaches to the deleterious
effects the present system particularly with respect to winner-take-all
in selecting electors and resolving elections should no candidate get a
majority of electors.
Curtis Gans, Director
Center for the Study of the American Electorate
Center for Democracy and Election Management
American University
3201 New Mexico Avenue NW
Suite 395
Washington, DC 20016-8026
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e-mail: gans@american.edu; curtis.gans@gmail.com
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