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In reply to the discussion: This PERFECTLY Illustrates How INSANE The Electoral College Concept Is! [View all]Warpy
(111,255 posts)Oh, the bafflegabbers on the "news" won't tell you before you go to bed at 11PM, but you'll know when you get up the following morning, sooner if you stay up all night at election parties like this country used to have.
The problem is that they don't want to pay people to count and the bafflegabbers don't like to be kept waiting. I think most of us can stand it until the following morning. Really.
Paper ballots are the most secure system. Yes, ballot boxes can be stuffed if security is lax, but an adversarial system demands decent security. Goodness knows our country is adversarial these days.
Since the EC has demonstrated a reluctance to do its constitutional duty by standing between the presidency and an ignorant populist blowhard like the founders intended it to, we might as well scrap it.