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Madison wanted to ban winner-take-all by choosing electors by congressional district. Like his contemporaries in 1787, he still did not think there would be an outright winner in the first round of voting, so he proposed a kind of ranked choice system... — PolitiTweet.org

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A fun fact is that the emergence of “winner-take-all” electors in the first decades of the 19th century led James Madison, chief architect of the Constitution, to propose a revised method of electing the president. https://t.co/GWeF1sUN1Q — PolitiTweet.org

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...by which each elector gets two votes, and can set a preference. If no one wins a majority on the first ballot, it goes to the second. If no one wins on the second, it goes to the House and Senate, where lawmakers will choose between the two top vote getters. — PolitiTweet.org

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