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To: Apollo who wrote (9468)	12/13/2000 6:52:38 PM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh	Respond to of 22706

I found your comments to be uncommonly intelligent, sane, and balanced. Unfortunately, those are three words which don't apply to either most politicians or the bulk of the electorate. I think the best thing to come from this debacle will be an improvement on the mechanics of voting. I'd guess the change, if any, will be incremental and small. Companies making electronic voting systems will get a lot of inquiries and then the appropriations committee will look at the price tag and decide that it can wait. As for reform of the Electoral College or anything more fundemental, there are reasons why basic change is unlikely. The best I'd guess we are likely to see is a shift to the model of awarding EC votes by district as in New Hampshire, but you can bet that won't happen a lot either since the party in power in each state will just figure that they would probably be just giving away part of the votes they would otherwise get.