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Election: Electoral college has become obsolete

Although my candidate won the presidency, I cannot understand why we allow the winner of the popular vote to lose the election. Use the electoral system for the primaries and conventions, but let the popular vote decide the election.

Time to update our voting process.

This story was originally published November 10, 2016 at 9:25 AM with the headline "Election: Electoral college has become obsolete."

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