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Originally Posted by Martian
Well, I'm a bit stymied by the whole electoral college thing. The first past the post system has it's flaws, but on the whole makes more sense to me.
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Has its flaws is an understatement. Plurality voting (first-past-the-post) is, quite easily, one of the worst, if not the worst voting method available. Worse yet, this is something that has been known for quite a long time but we've still done almost nothing about it, here and elsewhere around the world. The electoral college, while obviously imperfect, is mostly a scapegoat for the real problem in our elections, which is plurality voting.
Anyway, I just wanted to pop in here and point that out, because I'm not a foreigner so I'll leave it at that.