> Well, I'd say this election proves that your vote counts if you live in Florida. :-P
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> Seriously, though- I don't think the electoral college would be all that bad- if, that is, the electors were required to vote for whoever got the popular vote in their state. I mean, at least that way, we'd know that the majority of the popular vote went to the winner.

Not necessarilily, the devil, as they say in in the details, or in this case the math.

> The way it works now, your electors are under no obligation to vote for the canditate who wins in your state. I was amazed, watching the news last night, to see states where Bush won the popular vote, and yet they were still projected to go to Gore.

Well thats because, as I understand it, we vote for which set of Electors will vote for our state (I'm not sure about this and may be dead wrong) but in any event it still comes down to Alexander Hamilton and the Federalists who thought an intellectual elite should vote, that elite being the Electoral college. Apperently they are smarter and more qualified to decide our nations future then we are.


> ~Mina "couldn't vote because my paperwork was tied up in buearacracy" moon

Speed'same proplem, still waiting to hear if I'm eve registered, *fume fume*'ball