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" The Electoral College was necessary when communications were poor, literacy was low, and voters lacked information about out-of-state figures, which is clearly no longer the case. "

Gene Green

College

Poor

Literacy

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" Sen. Clinton carried our district, and it is difficult to vote against your constituents. "