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Article: The Electoral College is a ticking time bomb.(popular vote winner may not be elected, or faithless electors nullify vote in their state)(The State of the Nation)(Column)(Brief Article)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- May 1, 1998
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Now that the U.S. has won the Cold War, achieved economic prosperity, gotten crime under control, and balanced the budget, maybe we can tackle a really tough problem. The time has come to straighten out the Electoral College -- that archaic anti-democratic and confusing system used to elect the president. It is a ticking time bomb that sooner or later will go off in the face of the American people.
The general case against the Electoral College is straightforward: It ultimately will misfire and elect a president who has lost the popular vote. This is most likely to happen under the widely used winner-take-all system in which a candidate may lose one or two large ...