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Re: Poll: End the Electoral College

By: ribit in CONSTITUTION | Recommend this post (0)
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...regarding the electoral college.

Bill Clinton was elected with 42 percent of the vote. 42 percent is a plurality, not a majority. If ya allow somebody to go into office with a plurality of the vote you could have the vote split over several candidates / parties and someone could go into office with 30 percent or less of the vote. If ya have to have a majority, there wold have had to have been a runoff. There is no time for a runoff per the const. That's why we have electors.




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Re: Poll: End the Electoral College
By: ribit
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Tue, 25 Oct 11 2:45 AM
Msg. 15891 of 21975

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