Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:45:51 11/28/00
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On November 27, 2000 at 04:23:26, David Rasmussen wrote: >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. This shows you don't understand the US Constitution very well. One purpose of the federal government is to resolve disputes _between_ states. Another is to regulate trade between the states. Etc. So states _do_ count in the overall decision making process, as they should. The federal government is a part of the individual state governmental process... > >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Technological advances has simply outdated this system.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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