The Electoral College vote is complete B.S.

Sam Wang from Prince Election Consortium makes a good aegument for the electoral college:

[quote="Sam Wang"]I should say that for similar reasons, the U.S. system of electing a President is more fraud-proof than a simple popular vote. Even if there were voting error in one state, the effects would be contained there, like flooding on a compartmented ship. Without the Electoral College, every time there was a close national race wed have the Florida 2000 dispute (Bush v. Gore) in every precinct in the country. Blech.GreySeal9

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"The status quo doesnt cabin off crises, it creates them. The 2000 election, for example, was not especially close. Gores half-million-plus popular-vote majority was bigger than Nixons in 1968 and four times the size of Kennedys in 1960. The only reason there was a problem in 2000 is that our electoral setup for Presidential elections (and only for Presidential elections) allowed a tiny margin in one state to obliterate a substantial majority in the other forty-nine states (plus D.C.) that wasa thousand times greater. The same thing almost happened in 2004, when a 60,000-vote switch in Ohio would have rendered Bushs 3.5 million-vote national majority moot....

We have much bigger dangers to worry about under the status quo - dangers like another wrong winner election or a tie in the E.C. The current system is a machine for manufacturing artificial crises. Under state-by-state winner-take-all, there have been five litigated state counts in a mere fifty-six Presidential elections. The current system is not a firewall that helpfully isolates fires, its an arsonist itching to burn down the whole neighborhood by torching a single house."