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In reply to the discussion: Americans mostly back dumping the electoral college, i don't [View all]31j20b3
(105 posts)He's ordered the Post Office to deny mail delivery of ballots to states that oppose Trump's privacy denying policy.
The EC was a solution to a number of problems, BUT while technology provides work around for some, there are yet significant problems that the EC helps to mitigate, if only with limited success
We are not a simple homogenous country. We are a federation, of what originally were considered independent autonomous states (almost countries). The writers of the constitution had to find both political and practical solutions to inherently unfair powers that could likely emerge between what were considered EQUAL sovereign countries that resulted from differences in states sizes, populations, and relationships to naturally unequally divided assets.
The problems we now face, really aren't much like the problems back in 1887, but we still have problems which can be argued as unfairly biasing political power among the states, dooming some states to political obscurity and pushing others forward.
In a Federation founded like ours, that's sort of untenable. UNless all you want is for city people (currently democrats) to have dominance in political power.