minionofmidas
Lewis Trondheim
Atlas Institution
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« on: August 17, 2009, 05:28:32 AM » |
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The point of the electoral college is not to have to bother about uniform voting laws. Because these would become necessary if you did what everybody else in the world does and do away with the sillee idea. And the states wouldn't like it (the handful of states that hold their state elections on different dates might not mind too much, though.)
And not to have to bother about amending the US constitution as that's so darn complicated, of course.
That is to say, the EC now. The EC when it was first introduced was a weird compromise between the supporters of popular election, congressional election, and election by state governments, really. And didn't take the possibility of the emergence of a two-party system into account.
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