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One aspect of the Electoral College is that it's a built in corruption firewall. Right now, if an election system is "compromised" (electronically, corrupt off
by caseysoftware 7y ago
One aspect of the Electoral College is that it's a built in corruption firewall.
Right now, if an election system is "compromised" (electronically, corrupt officials, etc), it will affect that precinct, the local elections, possibly the state-wide races, and rarely the Presidential.
With a simple majority vote, a compromise anywhere in the system - adding or removing votes - impacts the system as a whole.
- twblalock 7y agoOther democratic countries are doing just fine without an electoral college.
- caseysoftware 7y agoMost of which are Parliamentary systems which are very similar structurally. In those cases, you don't directly elect a Prime Minister either. You elect an MP in little winner-take-all elections and then the party (or coalition) gets together and elect the PM from their own ranks. It's not quite 1:1 with an Electoral College but it's not direct democracy either. Which countries are direct democracies?