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Re:Donald Trump Is Elected President by mmanfrin on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @03:56PM (#12914556)
No it's not, it's like that as an artifact of what it used to be (that the President was elected by electors, not by the people).
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Re:Donald Trump Is Elected President by ng12 on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @05:23PM (#12915334)
Right, and it was up to the state to decide how the electors were elected. The intended goal is the same -- a midpoint between State-level republicanism and populist democracy.
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