“An article produced by Gallup showed that over 60% of Americans would prefer a direct election instead of the Electoral College.”
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“If the people are considered intellectually competent and informed enough to elect their representatives, then they should be equally qualified to vote for their own president as well.”
‘Alan Natapoff, a research scientist in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at an MIT conference debating the electoral college said, “The advantages of a system that would use actual turnout instead of [the Electoral College] as the basis for calculating a state's electoral votes… would increase an individual's voting power in poorly contested states like Massachusetts.”’
Such an interesting concept. Direct election of our Executive would definitely take some of the confusion out of the entire election system. I agree with your logic and find your assumptions to be correct.
ReplyDeleteyeah we've had this discussion before.... Federalist no. 68.... take it up with Alexander Hamilton... wait no you can't hahaha Aaron Burr beat you to it..... seems he didn't like a president determined by an electoral college either.... or was it about slander?..... i forget....
ReplyDeleteHaha, thank you both. Yes, when simplicity and accuracy are combined, efficiency is more likely to be found. Also, thank you Alex for pointing out Hamilton's thoughts.
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