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Re:Turkey cracking down on Internet usage by true_religion on Thursday February 06, 2014 @06:56AM (#7189890)
In practice, the US president is directly elected by the population. Every state has a law declaring that their electors (the representatives that really 'elect' the president) will follow the majority vote counted within that state.

Granted, if you look at wikipedia it'll say its an indirect system, but that's only a technicality.

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Re:Turkey cracking down on Internet usage by tomp on Thursday February 06, 2014 @07:48AM (#7190068)
Ok, then I was wrong. I've previously heard that in theory, the electors could change their mind, so that's why the parties only nominated their most senior, most trusted members for electors.
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Re:Turkey cracking down on Internet usage by selectodude on Thursday February 06, 2014 @08:24AM (#7190191)
You're technically right (the best kind of right) but in practice, that hasn't happened in probably 250 years.
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