>Here is your scenario:
>
>Clinton 269
>Dole 222
>Perot 46
>Nader 1
>
>
>If you need 270 votes, tell me how this is NOT grid-lock.
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>FWIW, there is nothing wrong with the electoral college per se since it does depend on the popular vote within a state. Seems to me if you get the underlying problem fixed, the electoral college issue goes away.
>
>In a word, you analysis is "flawed"...

I am assuming that the Perot voters can vote for one of the other candidates. You could use language such as this:

On the first ballot, electors must vote for the candidate to which they are pledged. If no candidate receives a majority of the electoral votes, electors may change their votes on subsequent ballots.

Peter