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Article: Prospects for the Electoral College after Election 2000.
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- Social Education
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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The Electoral College ... is the very model of up-to-date constitutional flexibility.
--Martin Diamond(1)
The impetus for abolishing the electoral college is as strong as it is simple. No sane electoral system awards victory to second place.
--Julian E. Davis(2)
Through all the startling twists and turns taken by Election 2000, one thing was agreed upon by all: this election was historic. The election prompted the longest period of post-election limbo without a president-elect since the election of 1876; the only move by a state legislature to declare its own slate of electors since the election of 1876; and the only entry of the ...