Re: [MV] [Politics] Election just a formality ??

From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Thu Jul 08 2004 - 14:11:58 PDT


At 5:01 PM -0400 7/8/04, Ryan Gill wrote:
>At 4:38 PM -0400 7/8/04, J. Forster wrote:
>>That's odd. I thought that there was going to be an election in
>>about 4 months
>>to CHOOSE the electors and thence the next president. I didn't know that the
>>next president has been chosen w/o bothering with the formality of
>>an election.
>
>Its been in the constitution since it's ratification as I understand
>it. The levels of government are stratified so as to slow the rapid
>change of

And here is a more in depth description of how the electoral college
system works at the Federal Election Commission.
http://www.fec.gov/pages/ecworks.htm

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