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  • Wasn't the whole point of the electoral college to disenfranchise freed slaves from voting en masse in the south?
    I don't understand why they don't just do the popular vote now.

  • As I understand it, essentially the rights of each individual state to make their own decisions re polling. The US is truly federal in this respect due to the origins of the United States of America.

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