Originally Posted by OpieCunningham

Not that I am defending the Electoral College system in any way, but this is not a good idea. All this will do is dillute the intentions of the popular vote by averaging out the votes in any given state and assigning a disproportionate value to those votes.

For example, lets take two states, A and B. They each have 10 EVs and 20 million people.

If State A ends with a 11,000,000 to 9,000,000 popular vote, each candidate will receive (depending on how the values are averaged) either 5 EV or 6 for one and 4 for the other.

If State B ends with a 10,000,000 to 10,000,000 popular vote, each candidate will again receive 5 EV.

State A will either be eliminating the value of 1 million votes for each candidate or eliminating the value of 1 million votes for one candidate while doubling the value of 1 million votes for the other candidate (a 6 to 4 EV breakdown would imply a 12mil to 8 mil popular vote).