Let's do the math for real (AJC)

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Because a record popular vote almost didn't count, Electoral College flunks out on fairness curve

Published on: 11/08/04

The mini-drama that played itself out Wednesday morning over Ohio's vote was eerily reminiscent of the turmoil in Florida that greeted the nation four years ago. And while the suspense was short-lived and the results clearer in Ohio in 2004 than in Florida in 2000, it should never have happened.

The time has come — after the second election in a row where the results in one state ultimately determined the outcome of the election — for the nation to drop out of the Electoral College. <snip>

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/1104/08electoral.html

[bemildred]

1. This is good, but it won't stop the rigging of elections.

We have to have a uniform, reliable, auditable voting system
nationwide, and I expect we will need some sort of political
revolt to get it. The fatheads in Washington are not going to
vote themselves out of power.