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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

I thought the original ideas of the 'electors" was to travel (before 
telecommunication, and planes, trains, etc) to the place where votes were to 
be cast to represent the votes from their states ? 

It is bad enough now. With 'direct vote' elections , there would be no brakes 
at all, if the fraud became too apparent, and too bad.  PPlus, pure democracy 
is just another name for mob rule.  That is why we , instead, have a 
Constituional republic ....bobford


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--- On Thu, 10/30/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] voter fraud
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008, 11:07 AM
> rayzentz AT aim.com wrote:
> > The founders assumed an active, independant-minded,
> educated populace, that would choose with honesty and
> foresight.?We were warned by some of them what could happen.
> 
> Actually, they didn't. They assumed we were a bunch of
> ignorant rabble; 
> that's why we have indirect elections. We elect the
> electors and they 
> elect the president and vice president. The original idea
> was that 
> Congress was supposed to elect the President and Vice
> President.
> 
> Lynn Wigglesworth
> 
> 
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