Why do we need to create an additional level of indirection in the election process by voting for electors instead of directly counting each states electoral votes?
Ridding the process of the actual electors and instead assigning the winner of each state a number of electoral votes would remove the major problem associated with using people — faithless electors. For the most part we don’t actually need the voters themselves anymore and that’s one electoral vote proposal I would not be against. However, while you remove certain possible problems you also remove some of the benefits. One strength of the current system is that it is much more flexible with unforeseen situations. For example, assume both a presidential candidate and his running mate are killed two days before election day. With automatic electoral votes what happens if they were leading and would have won — or what happens if they do win? With actual electors the party of the dead candidates could tell voters “go ahead and vote for them and your vote will actually count for these replacements”. They would then instruct their electors to vote for those. And a major crisis is much mor
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