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Subject: Re: Re: what happens if Reagan dies?
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Date: Sat, 22-Dec-84 17:04:10 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 22 17:04:10 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.