Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site gloria.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxj!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!rocksanne!sunybcs!gloria!colonel From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: electoral college Message-ID: <755@gloria.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Dec-84 14:14:15 EST Article-I.D.: gloria.755 Posted: Fri Dec 28 14:14:15 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Dec-84 05:18:58 EST References: <279@ho95b.UUCP>, <4425@cbscc.UUCP> <113@cadre.UUCP> Organization: SUNY-Buffalo Confuser Science Lines: 14 > 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 ...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel