He electoral college has many weaknesses. several reform plans have been suggested to strengthen these weaknesses. which plan would use popular votes to decide how many electoral votes a candidate would get

Answer;

-The proportional plan

Explanation;

-Proportional plan was a proposed reform where each presidential candidate would receive the percent of electoral votes that they win from each state.

-It is where a state's electoral college votes are distributed based on the proportion of the vote their party received. For example, in 2012 Wisconsin, which has ten electoral college votes had Obama win their state with 53% percent of the vote while Romney had just 46% the other 1% going to other candidates.

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