The electoral thing gives every person in smallest states three votes
(sum of reps. and senators).  The system was set up in large part
to safeguard slavery--the south (VA, for example) decreed that
Africans were 60% people, thus boosting their electoral count.
w>
> In a message dated 12/10/00 4:48:15 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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> > Antiquated, elitist electoral crap not wishstanding.\
> >  w
>
>     Each state allocates its electoral votes to the candidate that wins the
> POPULAR vote in each state.  The electoral college makes it more difficult
> for one large state to over ride the interests of smaller states.  This is an
> example of the checks and balances our constitution employs to prevent too
> great an accumulation of power by any one arm of our government.  The
> candidate who ultimately gets the most electoral college votes wins.  That
> should eventually be George.  The constitutionally meaningless NATIONWIDE
> popular vote is irrelevant in the determination of who is to be the head of
> the executive branch of the federal government.
> Yours,
> Issodhos
>