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The electoral college wins again.(Scan)
As this magazine arrives in your home, the country doesn't have a President-elect yet. Not officially. And we're all for it.
Formal voting in the Presidential election is not complete until the electors in each state cast their votes on December 13, and these electoral votes are not officially counted until the new Congress convenes on January 6, 2005. That's when the results of the 2004 Presidential election become final.
The last two elections proved, yet again, the worth of our Electoral College. First, the electoral vote tends to magnify the margin of victory between candidates, providing a clarity and certainty that popular vote totals cannot.
Second, the Electoral College isolates voting problems to a handful of states. If all the country's popular votes were tossed into one heap to be totaled, every water-damaged precinct log, every mail-delayed absentee ballot, every hanging chad in any hamlet would have to be fought over fiercely in any close election. But by devolving the vote counting to each state, the number of ...
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- Magazine article from: Insight on the News Klinkner, Philip McClellan, James December 18, 2000 700+ words
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- No Headway Made on Constitutional Overhaul of Electoral College System.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News December 1, 2003 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: The International Economy BELL, JEFF September 1, 2000 700+ words
...in the election of 1828, the Electoral College has elevated the winner of the...times. One of the two times the Electoral College was "wrong," in 1876, it was not so much the Electoral College as the Republican-controlled...
