By Wink What do ruthless dictators and theocrats fear the most? Guns? Nope. They fear an educated citizenry, and they fear the ballot box. A few decades back Iran was overthrown by religious zealots, and they still run it today. They are not good at paperwork, or dealing with foreign dignitaries, so they installed a [...]
The Electoral College is an imaginary mechanism used to select the President of the United States.
Each state is assigned a fairly random number of electoral votes, loosely based on population. The candidate who gets the majority of electoral votes becomes the next president.
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