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The Electoral College system works well in most elections. However, the call for reform is heard after almost every election. There are three major weaknesses in the system that could affect the outcome of an election. Winner take all is the main problem out of these three. If a candidate wins the largest number of popular votes in a state, that person receives all the state's electoral votes most of the time. In the rare …

…And we can only wonder about a time when we knew too little about a candidate. The original need for such a system passed with the arrival of the telegraph, never mind satellite communication and the Internet. In a country responsible for founding modern democracy, citizens have an unequal voice in who becomes president. Whatever happens in two weeks, it's time for Americans to scrap the Electoral College -- an 18th-century solution to 18th-century problems.