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muktiman

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4. The answer is yes. Electoral college keeps us locked into a 2 party system
Sat Aug 1, 2015, 02:41 PM
Aug 2015

The Electoral college is an artifact from an earlier time when delegates were selected to travel over great distances to meet and vote for the person for whom they were elected to vote. We don't need it now and more to the point it keeps up locked into a 2 party system. A 3rd party candidate will always be a spoiler, making the candidate closest to them weaker.

We need to eliminate the outdated electoral college and go to direct vote: and my preference is to add "instant runoff" voting.

instant runoff voting will allow multiple views to compete without damaging the other candidates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting

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