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Article: A LOOK AT THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE; Electors are suddenly in the spotlight; "A position that was always invisible" - presidential elector - has taken center stage. How are Minnesota's electors chosen, and what do they do? Could they affect this strange election?(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- November 10, 2000
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Matthew Little of Maplewood, the long-time NAACP leader and DFL activist, started chuckling as soon as he heard there was a reporter on the line wanting to talk to him in his capacity as one of Minnesota's presidential electors.
"That's a position that was always invisible," said Little, who served as an elector once before, in 1992, without having to grant any media interviews, "but all of a sudden it's gotten very visible."
No kidding. The Electoral College system, which has never really functioned the way the framers of the Constitution envisioned, is suddenly front and center for several reasons:
- If Texas Gov. George W. Bush carries ...