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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: electoral college
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Date: Fri, 28-Dec-84 14:14:15 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 28 14:14:15 1984
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> I read another good argument for the electoral college:
> It limits the scope of the damage from hanky-panky.  Sometimes
> even this mechanism fails.  In 1960, Mayor Daley's vote
> totals from Chicago gave Kennedy the Election.  Nixon didn't
> challenge but it was almost certain that in an honest election
> he would have won Illinois.  If there was no electoral college,
> cheating would be more likely to swing the entire election
> rather than just one state's votes.

So it looks as if the Electoral College _increases_ the scope
of dishonesty!  Swing one state and you may swing the nation.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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