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Election Reform

eniwetok

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2. if we can't get rid of the EC...

Reply to Scott m. Etches (Original post)

Mon Mar 28, 2016, 05:37 PM

Mar 2016

Too many just accept that antidemocratic abomination called the EC out of deference to the Framers. It's my view that we place democratic principles before Framer Worship. The EC simply can not produce morally legitimate government when it installs as president someone REJECTED by the People.

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Electoral College vs. Electoral System [View all] Scott m. Etches Feb 2016 OP

Explain the electoral college to me. SaveTheMackerel Feb 2016 #1

I take it you've never heard of National Popular Vote eniwetok Mar 2016 #3

if we can't get rid of the EC... eniwetok Mar 2016 #2