Author: David Rasmussen
Date: 01:23:26 11/27/00
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On November 27, 2000 at 00:44:19, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >Bush outnumbered Gore over 4 to 1. Just look at a voter map of the election at >a site like http://www.voter.com That is why we have an electoral college. But a president and his government is a federal instance, and doesnt have any more to say in one state than in another. So it should be one man one vote. Why should small states have proportionally more to say than large ones, when the decisions in question are federal? If it was a state voting for something, then the majority should win by democratic principles. If it's a federal presidential election, only peoples votes should count. Not states. It's illogical and undemocratic. The electoral college is a system that dates back to the time where computers weren't invented, and machines that could reliably count votes weren't invented (of course it doesn't help when they are invented, if you don't use them...) Technological advances has simply outdated this system. Today representative democracies can approach direct democracies, if they want to. If.
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