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Thread #70855   Message #1210729
Posted By: Two_bears
19-Jun-04 - 11:51 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Electoral College - why keep it ?
Subject: RE: BS: The Electoral College - why keep it ?
The Republican Party has had control of Alaska for many years. My presidential vote has never counted toward the candidate I wanted to vote for.

Unh huh. If you say so.

In the last election 42% of the voters in Alaska voted for Al Gore, yet all of our electoral votes went for Bush.

The Republicans in California, Chicago, California, etc could ALL make the same complaint.

The Founding fathers set up the United States that way from the beginning; you complaint should be with them.

This is an unfair system that disenfranchises the minority in our state. It is antiquated and needs to be either eliminated or proportioned so that voters like myself do not lose their ability to cast a ballot.

I still say confining a recount to ONE or TWO close states is much preferable to a long exoensive nation wide recount.

My children have told me they see no reason why they should vote for president, since their vote doesn't count. The Electoral College is one of the reasons there is such apathy in presidential elections in this country

In 2000; I went to the polls and voted against both the republicans and the democrats. I knew the odds of my niminee winning was slim and none but I voted for him none the less.