>>I disagree with you. The purpose of the election is to choose a president that more people in the US want than any other single person.
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>Correction. The purpose of the election is to elect a president according to the Constitution of the United States. The Constitution rules on this point, not what the most people want.
Can you find any references to support your position?
>>If a process is broken then its results are meaningless and should be discarded.
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>Nope. The results are just a meaningful as all previous US elections for President, since the procedures set forth in the Constitution are being followed. Do you contend that the system is broken and the results meaningless even if the same candidate wins both the Electoral and Popular vote, or just in the case where it is split?
Note that I was not arguing anything about elections. My statement was "If a process is broken then its results are meaningless and should be discarded."
Let's think this through...
Imagine a process (a function) called goober(). Goober's intention is to return the absolute value of a number given to it.
We test goober:
goober(1) = 1
goober(2) = 2
goober(-3) = -3 <--- wrong
Next, say that we are given proof that goober() is not working properly.
Case 1: we are able to determine which results are correct and which aren't. In this case we only need to discard the incorrect results
Case 2: we are not able to determine which results are correct and which aren't
In this case we must discard all results.
So we both are wrong. (damn)
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