Alternative voting methods? Oh, and the electoral college

I would like to offer the Bucklin voting system for inspection. 

It is a combination of Instant runoff (IRV), and approval voting. I call it Instant run off to approval. 

It can work where there is multiple candidates running for a single position where it is typically hard for a single candidate to get a majority if people vote with their true choice.

 It does not require a second vote, but it also does not eliminate those with the lowest vote in the first round. Instead, rolling towards approval vote as people’s second vote might be enough that that 3rd person will get 100% approval or close. Definitely closer to being liked my more people than if the first two choices are extremely hated by the other two groups of voters. Thus, a unifying third candidate might appear, be electable, and win, or at least bring the other two choices into unifying vs divisive stances. 

Granted, there may need to be tie breaking in certain situations. If after getting enough approval votes, two candidates are tied, a tie breaking action must be taken. Perhaps, in this case, fall back to break that tie by seeing who has the most first choice votes. A reverse instant run-off?

NOTE: There has been some controversy in the past because in some jurisdictions, when implemented, it was required to vote for more than one candidate. Instead, let the people vote strait line. I only want candidate A, thus, I am only voting for A.

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P.S. Remember as of now, we are voting for a parliament (College) that will vote for our president. There is a movement to circumvent this by way of block voting with other states. Instead, perhaps proportionally vote via the top choices down like parliaments are elected along party lines in other countries. The college was designed to vote in line with the desires of the country not by a majority within one state if 40% of a state likes candidate, then as close to 40% of the electorate for that state should vote for that person.

Technically based on the founders interests, that means that if only 40% of the people like Candidate “A” for president, and 60% like two other candidates, and those delegates believed that their constituents would prefer a certain other candidate vs letting the lesser approved 40% candidate win, they could vote that way thus, the college was intended to be more unifying than it is today where ALL votes go to the top in that state.

Thus, think of this college as a mirror Congress elected at the time of the presidential election that is supposed to do the will of the people. (Hence because its gotten out of line, people are asking for block voting to reign it in). Mirror because we are only electing the president vs pet projects of congress…. Mirror, because the president won’t be getting Quid Pro Quo, I voted for you, so sign my bill. Remember, separation of powers, and thus a mirror congress called the electoral college.

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p.p.s. In some cases, if we are looking more towards a direct vote vs a body that votes on our behalf, we should quadruple — or more — the size of the college to better allow for a 40% vote for candidate “B” thus be better represented by 40% of the college in that state.

Remember, the college is to ensure all states get a say vs be bullied by others. It is hard to say that 3 vs 55 is really being able to bully California, but 39,512,223 vs 578,759 is a sure way not to be represented.

NOTE: on the quadrupling…. or in this case, 10x; lets say we split the 3 electoral votes 30 ways, and the 55 votes into 550 ways, it is significantly easier to weight those votes based on that states true vote.

Caveat, this would require a constitutional amendment, bulking voting, weighting within the existing collage, and the currently progressing “block” voting, does not. However, block voting does not take into account the bully effect nor the percentages within each state. Both, concerns of the founders, and spirit of the College, a spirit that is not honored today. — Perhaps a few years of block voting, will show some distaste as will, and finally, perhaps a constitutional amendment towards a direct weighted vote via a 10x college?