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If you do away with the electoral college be prepared for national recounts taking weeks or months. Also, people in states with small populations may as well move east or west if they ever want to see a candidate. They'll be spending all of their time and money wooing the large metropolitan centers where the votes are. If you don't believe this just look at the current election. GWB carried the majority of the country geographically, but Gore won the popular vote. The E.C. limits the recounts to single states and gives each state proportionate worth. If the E.C. is eliminated the next thing to go may be the concept of two senators per state. Why give California and Rhode Island the same power in the Senate? Greg 48/35/35 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dick Swindler" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 11:29 PM Subject: Re: (fwd) RALLY IN PALM BEACH > Darwin - > > The framers of the constitution were addressing the situation at the time, > when many people were illiterate, and there was little means of communication > from one place to another. They didn't trust the voters to make informed > decisions. I'm not saying everyone in the country today makes informed > decisions, either, but the means of communication exist for them to do so. I > say it's time to change the archaic electoral college provision and allow us > to be a true democracy. > > We hear so much about why people don't get out and vote. I can tell you that > I still vote, although every four years I wonder why I bother. I live in a > state dominated by the "opposite" party, so every single time I've voted for > a president, my vote ends up being treated as if it didn't exist. I don't > see how there's any fairness in a system that tosses out the votes of > slightly less than half its citizens during every presidential election. > Maybe if people thought their votes truly counted, more would get out and > vote. And I don't mean that handful of people in Florida this time whose > votes really matter. I mean all the rest of us whose presidential votes have > never counted, once, in a lifetime of voting. > > Margie > > << > Changing the subject a little. There is such a hoopla about popular vote. > That is as totally meaningless as deciding who is elected by whose wife > weighs the most. We are a Republic not a Democracy and anyone who doesn't > know the difference shouldn't be participating in the election process in > the first place. We are a Federation of States, whence the name United > States of America. People do not elect the President, by our Constitution, > the states do, and it is up to each state to survey/poll their citizens > using laws they have established to determine who they are going to vote for > to represent them in the Executive Branch. >> >