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To: Lou Weed who wrote (251977)	12/21/2007 2:45:38 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) of 281500

What astounded me after the recount nonsense was the fact that the guy that won the popular vote lost the election. Never have and never will understand the electoral college......any system that allows for such a scenario is fundamentally flawed as a voting system for a democracy. Does any other country have an electoral college? It's not due to the electoral college. It could happen even without the electoral college, and it could be corrected leaving the electoral college in place. The US doesn't actually have any national elections; it has 50 state elections instead. The states decide how to apportion their results. A few states divide their results according the vote count but the great majority do it on a winner-takes-all basis. It is the winner-takes-all system that creates the potential for losing the popular vote but winning the election.

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