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Article: symposium.(the electoral college)
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- Insight on the News
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- December 18, 2000
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Q: Should the Electoral College be abolished in favor of direct elections?
Yes: The Electoral College grossly distorts the principle of one person, one vote.
It finally happened. The ticking time bomb of the Electoral College has exploded. Although the full extent of the damage is yet to be determined, we face the possibility of electing a president who actually received fewer popular votes than his opponent and an election outcome that will turn on a few hundred disputed votes in Florida. Perhaps the only positive outcome of this fiasco is that the American public might finally demand that we scrap the Electoral College.
Even before ...