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More importantly, defenders of or apologists for the Electoral College should at least acknowledge that the EC outlined in the Constitution ceased to exist by the 1804 election and was virtually unrecognizable by 1828, when the popular vote was first comprehensively tabulated. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 16, 2020 Hibernated

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The process that produced the Constitution wasn’t especially democratic — the constitutional convention was practically a bait and switch! — and ratification, while certainly *more democratic* also wasn’t especially democratic, even by the standards of the day. https://t.co/ehorAbUm5O — PolitiTweet.org

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Any defense of the Electoral College from the standpoint of democratic legitimacy should contend with the fact that this extra-constitutional EC — winner-take-all with electors bound to the popular will — was the ad hoc result of partisan politics, not democratic deliberation. — PolitiTweet.org

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