Gary Johnson wants to be US president

IMAGINE that the United States has an electoral system based on proportional representation by which divisions in an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body; so if 20 per cent of the electorate support a certain political party, then around 20 per cent of seats in the American parliament will be awarded to that party.

And now imagine that instead of having to elect their representatives to Congress as well as their next president through an electoral system that even a nuclear physicist may have problem deconstructing, American voters would be directly electing in November 2016 their favourite political party to a 100-member parliament.

We have finally gotten rid of that mysterious body known as the Electoral College that meets after Nov 8 to choose the new US president. And you don't have to vote separately in elections for the House of Representatives and the Senate. The American head of state would now be the leader of the political party that had won the largest number of votes in the election.