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The purpose of the electoral college was to ensure that states with small populations would have some representation in electing a president and that regional favorite "sons" wouldn't win due to lack of information about other candidates.
But how would small state populations receive some representation when each state get electors based on the # of senators (2) and the # of house of representatives (this # is based on a state's population). I could understand back during the 1700's using electoral college, but now with the technology advances, we should use popular vote to elect a president. We use the popular vote for all other elected offices.
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