A Popular Debate

[Aaron Adler <cadlerun@>]

Well I'm out of debates so I can't write about those this week. The 
election is now about 11 days away. Who knows what will happen. We do 
know that we only have 87 days of Bush left.

I remember the 2000 election night pretty well. The night was pretty 
much like the stock market is lately -- lots of ups and downs. After 
seeing Florida called every possible way, I think we gave up around 3am. 
Of course it would turn out to be a long drawn out affair and I'm sure 
most of the country (and the world) probably wish it came out differently.

We were discussing this National Popular Vote Interstate Compact 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact) 
at GSB. I think the electoral college has it quirks, but it's worked 
pretty well. If you want to change it go ahead and amend the 
constitution. If you can't do that, then leave it alone. There's a good 
reason why the constitution is hard to change. I think that encouraging 
people to vote is a good thing. I also have big problems with combining 
vote totals from different states -- especially if everyone plays by 
different rules, I don't see how it's fair. I don't want my vote 
affected by some elderly folks in Florida who mess up a ballot, or by 
some person in the midwest whose goal is to keep people from voting 
because their house was foreclosed on. What if the vote is so close you 
need a recount? What about those really awful voting machines that you 
can't audit?

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