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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (120032)	11/19/2003 9:58:18 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Well Jacob, you're just going to have to suffer with the fact that the United States of America is not a pure democracy; it is a republic with representative government. Our Founders had many (justifiable) worries about democracy; the original system was even less democratic than the current one. But when you go around dissing our elections because the electoral college is undemocratic, then your beef is with the US Constitution. I have many beefs with the 2000 election. The election was incompetently run, and the ensuing mess should have gone to the House of Representatives as the Constitution directs, not to the Supreme Court. But the electoral college is not one of my beefs. It is just one of the various ways the Constitution tries to ensure that big states can't run roughshod over small ones, like the formula that gives both Rhode Island and California two Senators.