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Sophia4

(3,515 posts) Fri Feb 16, 2018, 06:07 PM Feb 2018

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The Russians were told to focus on swing states, on purple states. [View all]

The purple states are only so crucial because we have the electoral college.

Hillary won the majority of popular votes. If we did not have the electoral college, if the popular vote decided the election, if votes in populous states like California counted for as much as votes in less populous states like Montana, the Russians would have had a harder time gaming our presidential election. Their efforts would have been far more obvious.

Amend the Constitution to end the electoral college.

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The Russians were told to focus on swing states, on purple states. [View all] Sophia4 Feb 2018 OP

This is absolutely correct PJMcK Feb 2018 #1

This will not happen, anymore than DC residents getting to vote for their own reps in congress Gabi Hayes Feb 2018 #2

The electoral college is a historical relic that outlived any usefulness it once had, but fraud risk unblock Feb 2018 #3

We need paper ballots that can be recounted manually. Sophia4 Feb 2018 #5

Current System Maximizes Incentive & Opp to Determine Election mvymvy Feb 2018 #8

Wow... All this outside money, influence and ratfucking Blue_Tires Feb 2018 #4

61% of the way to reforming the Electoral College mvymvy Feb 2018 #7

Instead, The National Popular Vote Bill mvymvy Feb 2018 #6

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