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PJMcK

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6. The Electoral College was due mostly to appeasing the slave states

Reply to LiberaBlueDem (Reply #3)

Fri Nov 8, 2024, 09:14 PM

Nov 8

It's instructive that every country that has adopted a democratic government has based their election on the popular vote, that is, NONE OF THEM have used an Electoral College. Guess why? Simply, it's un-democratic and it's based on conditions that didn't exist in other countries, namely, slavery.

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