> Our election process is imperfect because sometime the man who gets the most votes doesn't become president.
> Howard

No, it's not, because it's not *supposed* to. Your car isn't *supposed* to fry eggs. Does that make it imperfect, and is the question even relevant? Originally, the system prevented the uneducated and uninformed masses from picking an idiot for President. Now, it nominally does the same thing in addition to forcing candidates to pay attention to more places than New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Philadelphia. How's that imperfect? A straight "most votes wins" system means the country would be run entirely by urban centers. America is not a democracy, because democracies involve a lot of the majority trampeling on the minority. America's electoral process protects the minority. If you think politicians would care as much about the folks in Tennessee, Colorado or Oklahoma without our current system as they do with it, you're kidding yourself.

TOM