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panfluteman

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7. Abolish the Electoral College and Eliminate Foreign Interference in Our Elections!

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Sun May 31, 2020, 10:14 AM

May 2020

"No way do Americans elect this man" - well, the majority of Americans didn't - they clearly voted for Hillary, by almost 3 million votes. The Russian hacking and stealing of the 2016 election was made possible by the Electoral College, and nothing else. The grave national security threat to our elections in this age of cybertechnology now eclipses and outweighs every other ostensible reason for having this archaic and outdated institution that its defenders could possibly come up with.

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I remember an incident at a Trump rally in Chicago in early 2016 [View all] Tommy_Carcetti May 2020 OP

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