Rethinking role of Electoral College by Montana’s Bob Brown

I’m beginning to have serious doubts. Within our constitutional framework, elections are how people give their consent to government. A government established without the consent of the governed inherently lacks the mandate of the people to govern. Through no fault of Trump or Clinton, but because of the Electoral College, that is where we find ourselves now.

Bob Brown

http://missoulian.com/news/opinion/columnists/rethinking-role-of-electoral-college/article_aa9bd4ec-a12e-599b-8ca6-2f7fe7c766ed.html

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The Troubling Reason the Electoral College Exists – Slavery

The Founding Fathers had something particular in mind when they set up the U.S. presidential election system: slavery

http://www.matr.net/article-74152.html