October 8, 2004

The Flawed Electoral College

By DAVID GLENN

Quick: What happens on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December? If the U.S. presidential election is close, we might again be treated to a national civics lesson on the mechanics of the Electoral College. The entire apparatus should be abolished, says George C. Edwards III, a professor of political science at Texas A&M University at College Station. In Why the Electoral College Is Bad for America (Yale University Press), he argues that "the choice of the chief executive

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