To: SmithL
Imagine if the total nationwide vote count was really close. Then you would have to recount every single ballot in the country, as opposed to just having to recount in one state.
8 posted on
08/20/2007 7:57:45 AM PDT by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
To: dfwgator
Direct election (transcending state boundaries) of the President and Vice-President is almost as impractical today as it was in 1789.
To: dfwgator
Worse, it nationalizes vote fraud. Ballot box stuffing in Philadelphia is confined to Pennsylvannia right now. With a national poll, the incentives for vote fraud are heightened.
59 posted on
08/20/2007 11:07:05 AM PDT by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(NYT Headline: Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake but Accurate, Experts Say)
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