by Sandy » Tue Dec 19, 2017 9:36 am
The electoral college was an anomaly for the American "experiment in Democracy" with philosophical ties to the old European idea of protecting the "landed aristocracy." In the case of the US, the main purpose it served was to secure support of the smaller colonies as smaller states for the ratification of the constitution. There are plenty of reasons why it should have been abolished after the Civil War, since it was the primary means by which politicians supporting slavery were able to hang on to power, and was the reason why the Civil War occurred in the first place. At any rate, the anomalies which have occured since the beginning of this century are large enough to demonstrate that the EC is obsolete, and needs to be abolished and replaced. If we're not going to have a consistent system of voting nationwide, at least everyone's vote should count the same.