Electoral College

[eppie]

Sorry to be confusing things.  To clarify my question about mandatory voting:  I posed it more as a sidebar to the electoral debate.  I wasn't tying it to Assur's post, although his post did inspire the question to some degree.
As Minionman stated the electoral college is part of the U.S.'s system of checks and balances.  Our electoral votes are based on the direction the majority of voters, state by state, have voted.  When the system was started it was because communication was much slower and because State Governments were honestly worried about the Federal Government getting too much power and overriding the individual voice of each state.
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But, as the presidency is something from the whole US, it does not make sense to do the voting via this system, just adding all the votes in teh whole country would be the only good system. But as often, it is difficult to change things.

I heard there are allready major problems in Florida with the voting. There are even international inspectors to see that everything goes correctly. (but there are only 100 of them, which is of course by far not enough to check everything)