Right. One of the reasons the electoral colege was installed is the obvious size of this country if extended to its natural borders.

To make an immeditae, direct-vote democracy work you have to have non-repudiable identification of the voter, electronically verifiable. You also have hug3e cultural education to go through -- laws would have to be broken down into comprehensible segments that coulld be individually voted on. The whole concept of piggybacking non-relevant parts ontot he backs of bbills, which is anathema to clear lawmaking anyway, would have to go away. People would have to be willing to take responsibility themselves for their votes rather than handing it odff to a professional representative. All these add up to a lot of inertia , which is the answer to your question IMO.

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