On the issue of voting, you could really save everyone a lot of trouble by frying the electoral college, it's just screwing things up. It leaves thing anti-democratic and unfair to all voters, and offers a bonus to people living in certain areas by weighting their vote for more than other areas. On top of that, their have been times when the electoral college says someone is the winner, but if we had just done a dirrect vote, the opponent would have won (ex. US election in 1960).
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On the issue of voting, you could really save everyone a lot of trouble by frying the electoral college, it's just screwing things up. It leaves thing anti-democratic and unfair to all voters, and offers a bonus to people living in certain areas by weighting their vote for more than other areas. On top of that, their have been times when the electoral college says someone is the winner, but if we had just done a dirrect vote, the opponent would have won (ex. US election in 1960).