--- title: Five Best Ideas: How to Fix America's Electoral System description: Here’s a real plan to fix America’s electoral system, online dating is helping computers save lives after organ transplants and more canonical: https://time.com/4636312/how-to-fix-americas-electoral-system/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-17T17:00:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:10.561Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How to Fix America's Electoral System og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4636312/how-to-fix-americas-electoral-system/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How to Fix America's Electoral System twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How to Fix America's Electoral System by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 17, 2017 5:00 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 17, 2017 5:00 PM CUT **1\.** [**Here’s a real plan to fix America’s electoral system.**](http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/01/19/rules-of-the-game-new-electoral-system/ "undefined") By Eric Maskin and Amartya Sen in the New York _Review of Books_ **2\.** [**Lessons from online dating are helping computers save lives after organ transplants.**](http://mashable.com/2017/01/17/organ-donation-ai-liver-transplants/ "undefined") By Ariel Bogle in _Mashable_ **3\.** [**Could this humble creature save dying coral reefs?**](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/these-herbivores-stage-huge-recue-coral-reef-180961753/ "undefined") By Jackson Landers at _Smithsonian_ **4\.** [**Cars are getting smarter to keep us safe. Unfortunately, car dealers aren’t keeping up.**](https://www.wired.com/2017/01/car-dealers-dangerously-uneducated-new-safety-features/ "undefined") By Aarian Marshall in _Wired_ **5\.** [**Entrepreneurs are making big business out of sanitation in India.**](http://impactalpha.com/letter-from-india-how-poop-is-becoming-big-business-for-small-companies/ "undefined") By Devyani Singh in _Impact Alpha_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4636312/how-to-fix-americas-electoral-system/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4636312/how-to-fix-americas-electoral-system/"},"headline":"How to Fix America's Electoral System","datePublished":"2017-01-17T17:00:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:10.561Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4636312/how-to-fix-americas-electoral-system/","keywords":["Innovation","India","cars","electoral college"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4636312/how-to-fix-americas-electoral-system/","name":"How to Fix America's Electoral System"}}]}] ```