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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by twblalock on Thursday August 22, 2019 @02:55AM (#20765357)
Other democratic countries are doing just fine without an electoral college.
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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by caseysoftware on Thursday August 22, 2019 @10:28AM (#20768420)
Most of which are Parliamentary systems which are very similar structurally.

In those cases, you don't directly elect a Prime Minister either. You elect an MP in little winner-take-all elections and then the party (or coalition) gets together and elect the PM from their own ranks.

It's not quite 1:1 with an Electoral College but it's not direct democracy either.

Which countries are direct democracies?

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