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The odds are stacked heavily against a new attempt to reform the manner in which we elect our president every four years, but that doesn't mean that a change in the operation of the Electoral College isn't a worthwhile idea.

A bipartisan group of former members of Congress, including former Sen. Birch Bayh, Democrat of Indiana, and former Rep. John B. Anderson, Republican of Illinois, who ran for president unsuccessfully in 1980, is behind the latest proposal. It aims to ensure that a presidential candidate cannot win the White House without at least a plurality of the national popular vote.
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)
 

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