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« on: November 29, 2012, 02:06:24 PM »
Well?
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« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2012, 02:11:07 PM »
HPs, and that possibility provides (yet another) argument for abolition of the EC.
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« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2012, 03:29:57 PM »
My opinion of faithless electors is as negative as my opinion of the EC itself.
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« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2012, 04:59:16 PM »
Quote from: Senator Franzl on November 29, 2012, 02:11:07 PM
HPs, and that possibility provides (yet another) argument for abolition of the EC.
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« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2012, 05:02:35 PM »
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« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2012, 05:08:58 PM »

I knew someone was going to say that!
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« Reply #6 on: November 29, 2012, 05:29:11 PM »
FF as long as they don't actually change the winner. Who doesn't like some intrigue in their elections?
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« Reply #7 on: November 29, 2012, 06:05:08 PM »
Quote from: Senator Franzl on November 29, 2012, 02:11:07 PM
HPs, and that possibility provides (yet another) argument for abolition of the EC.

Thus, FF
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« Reply #8 on: November 29, 2012, 06:18:30 PM »
Meh
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« Reply #9 on: November 29, 2012, 06:46:39 PM »
HPs for ignoring the will of the people.
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« Reply #10 on: November 29, 2012, 06:52:13 PM »
Why do people actually vote still? Why not just make the vote tally automatic?
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« Reply #11 on: November 29, 2012, 07:09:44 PM »
Depends on who they vote for Wink
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« Reply #12 on: November 29, 2012, 07:11:32 PM »
Most of the freedom fighters have been horrible people.

Anyway, I don't really have an opinion either way when it comes to faithless electors.  By the time they actually do their thing you know who's going to be elected, so one or two weird stray votes (like in 2000 when that Maryland woman refused to vote) doesn't change anything.
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« Reply #13 on: November 29, 2012, 08:02:00 PM »
Freedom Fighters for exercising their freedom of conscience. They serve as a vestige of the suspicion of democracy that the country was originally founded upon.
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« Reply #14 on: November 30, 2012, 09:52:49 AM »
HPs. As Franzl said, one of the arguments in favour of abolishing the EC.
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« Reply #15 on: November 30, 2012, 02:53:06 PM »
Quote from: realisticidealist on November 29, 2012, 06:52:13 PM
Why do people actually vote still? Why not just make the vote tally automatic?

Hale Boggs proposed this in 1968. Like every EC reform proposal it went nowhere.
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