Electoral College

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

In a perfect world, I would agree that the direct popular election would be the best system.

However we don't live in a perfect world and the technical aspects of democracy have to be considered.  At least with the Electoral college we will always end up with a President, even if once every century or so said President's opponent may have recieved a few more votes than he/she did.

Had we had the direct popular vote in 2000, the election debacle that was confined to one state could have been extended to the entire country with each state's results challenged to squeeze votes out for one side or the other.  It would have turned a temporary mess into a nightmarish Constitutional crisis.  If you don't think that the results in Florida were right, how could you possibly think that those discrepancies multiplied across the country would be any more accurate?  Even if the entire country switched to a similar electronic voting system with the same rules and standards, there would still be challenges of voter lists and claims of fraud.

I don't like the electoral college, but I accept it as a necessity for an orderly transition of power in a nation with over a hundred million voters.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

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You want to have a record kept of how an individual voter voted?

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The Constitution says this country is a union of different states with considerable autonomy.  Unfortunately the far left, the justice department, (and now the religious right) hate decentralization and the union of states and want to do whatever possible to destroy it and the Constitution that protects it.  We are a nation of one people who live in 50 different and autonomous states.

I do 100% agree with the district reforms that Bullmoose suggested, even if he brought up Cheech