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Article #280Why the Electoral College
From: "F.Baube x554"
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 11:45
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 11:45
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Gary Coffman <ke4zv!gary> writes: > [The Electoral College] was done to prevent some small geographic > area of the country from dominating the government at the > Congressional or Executive levels. By limiting the effect of a huge plurality in a single state ? Consider also that when the Constitution was written the US was a large country with poor communications. Makes election monitoring tres difficult. But with the Electoral College, massive vote fraud in a single state has only a limited effect on the overall outcome. (Although small-scale vote fraud probably cost Nixon in 1960). /fred :: baube@optiplan.fi
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