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Electoral College: It failed us and must be dismantled

With the final opportunity to preserve national sanity, global respect and our democracy, the electors chose instead to parade in goose-step towards their comrade leader.

The Electoral College is charged with preventing the validation of a demagogue like Donald Trump. By rubber-stamping him, the electors and the Electoral College have failed to perform their primary function. With that, they are impotent and feckless and should be dissolved.

This story was originally published December 26, 2016 at 6:29 PM with the headline "Electoral College: It failed us and must be dismantled."

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