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A fun fact is that the emergence of “winner-take-all” electors in the first decades of the 19th century led James Madison, chief architect of the Constitution, to propose a revised method of electing the president. https://t.co/GWeF1sUN1Q — PolitiTweet.org

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and abolishing or circumventing the electoral college would not lead to “direct democracy.” direct democracy is a term for direct citizen participation in lawmaking. voters casting a ballot for an individual to administer government is “republican” as per the framers. — PolitiTweet.org

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Madison wanted to ban winner-take-all by choosing electors by congressional district. Like his contemporaries in 1787, he still did not think there would be an outright winner in the first round of voting, so he proposed a kind of ranked choice system... — PolitiTweet.org

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