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>Personally, I like the electoral college, I think there are good reasons for it, I want it to survive. But I know that an AWFUL lot of people don't agree with me. I don't know that a challenge to those paper ballots would be as important or defensible a point without that national popular vote issue hanging over folks' heads.
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>The popular vote spoke. It said Gore. As I said before, why does my vote in Florida count more than somebody's vote in a 'smaller' State? It shouldn't IMO.

Alex,

Doesn't matter what you think (no offense meant). It's the law and written into the Constitution of all places.

Electors definitly 'pay' something to become one. They are picked by their state's political parties. Typically they woul dbe someone whose loyalties to the party are absolute since, by law in most states, they can actually vote for anyone they choose. SOme states have tried to erect laws to prevent this but to my knowledge they have never been challenged.

The notion of the Electoral College and Electoral votes etc was to avoid the kind of mob mentality that inevitably arises from a direct popular vote. A kind of buffer zone, if you will.

Read the Federalist Papers....