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    9 months ago

    Abolish electoral college is not the answer to these issues. Unless you have a new idea in mind. Electoral college is better than using popular vote. It helps prevent fraud from any one particular state.

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      9 months ago

      How so? And does that outweigh the negatives and weaknesses we’ve seen in the electoral college system over the past 2 election cycles?

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        8 months ago

        I was mostly curious those that want to abolish it what their alternative solution is.

        Under popular vote, DeSantis is still running and maybe now he gets 63 billion votes from Florida alone. The impact of this fraud (there are not 63 billion ppl voting in Florida) is bigger with no electoral college.

        Other countries don’t have EC bc other counties don’t have our state and government structure.

        Yall do you. I’m not very political anyway.

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          8 months ago

          Popular vote works pretty well, that’s how we run every other election.

          If you didn’t know, the electoral college is a holdover from when slave states wanted to keep political control away from the North, where the population was rapidly growing while the South was falling apart.