Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cadre.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!edsel!bentley!hoxna!houxm!whuxlm!akgua!mcnc!idis!cadre!geb From: geb@cadre.UUCP Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: Re: what happens if Reagan dies? Message-ID: <113@cadre.UUCP> Date: Sat, 22-Dec-84 17:04:10 EST Article-I.D.: cadre.113 Posted: Sat Dec 22 17:04:10 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Dec-84 02:39:52 EST References: <279@ho95b.UUCP>, <4425@cbscc.UUCP> Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pgh. Lines: 9 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.