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Electoral College could be due for overhaul  view story
Monday, November 1, 2004
MARIAN GAIL BROWN - - Connecticut Post
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Each state automatically gets two electoral votes, plus additional ones based on how many congressional districts they have. Connecticut gets seven electoral votes.
"We are the world's greatest democracy, and yet when we inspire a Third World country to adopt our principles of democracy, the one thing they never, ever choose is our Electoral College system," says John Orman, a Fairfield University politics professor and author of several books about the modern American presidency. "Why don't they want it? Because it's crazy."
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