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Old 03-4-2004, 09:46 PM   #21
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SO MUCH IDIOCY. electoral votes per state are based on the population, thus, though alaska gets less electoral votes, a single person's vote is more meaningful, so the ratio of people to electoral votes stays about the same.

Edit: What burning cyclope said is even worse. Saying that would be like saying that everyone who votes for the loser may as well not vote, so what kind of a democracy doesn't make EVERY SINGLE CITIZEN happy? Well, the answer is the kind that functions as a government.
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Old 03-5-2004, 10:23 PM   #22
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The electoral college is stupid. LIke AlbinoLime said it was devised back in the beginning of elections..but not just for protection. We just lacked the technology to count every vote in the country..we didn't have computers or anything..so they just counted up the votes in each state and gave it a number based on its representatives. Today we obviously have enough technology to count every vote in the US..and it's a lot fairer that way.
In case you havent noticed, we STILL lack the technology to count every vote in the country fairly. Electronic voting? It's a joke right now, all voting software used so far has contained a console that can be accessed by a voter with the right know how and another one to revert the machine back to default settings (the physical sealing and certifying of the booths does nothing, its a software thing, and those booths are ridiculously complicated with code). They were put in by programmers who were paid off by not-so-honest organizations that want their puppet in office.

Voting over the internet is worse. You know how elections have been fixed by using dead people's social security numbers to vote? Well, the internet makes that a billion times easier.

That leaves simple machines and a physical ballot, they may not be the cutting edge of technology, but they make it alot harder to fix an election.
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