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| The Electoral College: Source of Inequality and Social Injustice in America by Gary Parish |
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| FOOTBALL ANALOGY |
• One Person One Vote Myth • Fundamentally Unfair! • See For Yourself! • Social Injustice • Football Analogy • Moral Arguments • EC Cancels Votes • Founding Fathers • Invalid Arguments For EC • States' Rights? • Reform Options • Conclusion • Inequality Maps • EC Cartoons • Postscript:Voting Power • References • Acknowledgements • Action Center • Get Involved • E-mail White House • E-mail Congress • E-mail Newspapers • E-mail Political Parties • E-mail Networks • E-mail Media • Calling Cards • Teaching Notes |
While these differences in the value of a vote among different groups may seem small to some, they mean a lot in terms of election outcomes. Consider a hypothetical situation in which you are a member of an eleven person football team. There are two teams--a White team and a Hispanic team. Imagine that you are a member of the White team and you are told that the Hispanic team would be allowed to play with one extra player at all times. Further, you are told that this rule could not be changed for this game--for the rest of the games in this season, and for all games for the foreseeable future. Would you think the game was fair, or would you think that the rules were rigged in favor of the Hispanics? How long would you play this kind of game before you-like many minority voters--dropped out? Reverse the roles in this situation and you have the situation an average Hispanic or Jewish voter faces every time he casts a ballot for President because his vote is only worth about 90 percent as much as a white person's vote.
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