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VOX: Monday's Electoral College results prove the institution is an utter joke
OK, so its probably an editorial, but with Vox its hard to tell the difference between what passes for news and what is meant to be an editorial.
What the story gets right:
When Donald Trump won the presidential election in November, some liberals and activists had a cool-sounding idea. What if, they mused, they could in fact block his win through the Electoral College, which actually casts the ballots that will officially make Trump president?
But when the electors gathered across the country Monday, this plot backfired embarrassingly — more electors defected from Hillary Clinton than from Trump.
Yeah, that fiasco had to be embarrassing for some liberals. But its often hard to find lefties that have a sufficient sense of decency to be embarrassed by this.
What the story gets wrong:
The record number of defections for the modern era — there hasn’t been more than one faithless elector in any one election in the past century — proves that the Electoral College isn’t a system that can be relied on to accurately reflect the will of voters in the states. And yet it also isn’t a system where electors feel completely free to make up their own minds.
What we actually have is a system in which the vast majority of electors vote in accordance with state outcomes — except for essentially random defections by little-known, idiosyncratic people who happen to have won elector slots. And that is a system that’s badly vulnerable to a very serious crisis.
No, there's nothing wrong with the system of using electors. Its actually quite brilliant. Now if
hysterical leftists would quit trying to mess with it every time the system doesn't produce the results they prefer, we'd all be better off.