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Article: NO NEED TO REPEAL THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE.
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- State Legislatures
- Article date:
- February 1, 2001
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Before we wipe out the entire electoral college, there are some changes we can make to improve the entire election system.
Until this November, the Electoral college was a vague remembrance from high school civics classes, a subject to master for SATs (and then forget immediately afterward) or an occasional final Jeopardy category. Not any more.
The election controversy of 2000, the first of any major magnitude since 1876, has put the Electoral College right in front of Americans' faces, on their television screens and in daily conversations in barber shops, coffee houses, at office water coolers and the dinner table.
Of course, if the ...