Paul Johnson wrote:


ยน For those not of US origin, the US has had an electoral college to decide it's soverign since it's inception, the popular vote for president is legally nonbinding in nearly all states: the electoral college can and does vote for whoever it wants. Out of a quarter billion people, only 538 appointed, not elected, people out of the entire country are allowed to have a binding vote for US president. So if you don't like the current president, you only have 538 people to blame, not the rest of us who had no non-violent method to have any say, pro or con, in the matter.


Good god! so are the Presidential elections that are held in the US a sham ?? does only 538 really decides who the president is ??

Ace.

No.  Paul has no idea what the hell he's talking about.  Most electoral
college members are bound by state law to vote for the presidential
candidate they were elected to vote for.  Even the ones not so bound
vote as they're supposed to.  There has been only a handful of
exceptions to this rule ever, and none has ever changed the result of
an election.


Chris Mattern


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