Electoral College has outlived its usefulness

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August 6, 2008

Anonymous The Salem News Wed Aug 06, 2008, 12:06 AM EDT

To the editor:

There were articles written recently in The Salem News about the Electoral College and I wholeheartedly agree with some of our local representatives that the Electoral College has outlived its usefulness and is a flawed system.

Many people in our nation have fought very hard for the "right to vote," but the Electoral College no longer really affords us that wonderful privilege.

I am a registered independent voter, and believe that I should have the right to choose "the highest leader in our land" by popular vote. Why should the Electoral College choose for me and leave me to have to pick whomever they choose? Many people whom I have spoken to feel the very same way.

Where is our "right to choose" if they have already done so. Whatever happened to 'We, the people of the U.S.'"?

IRENE CONNELL

Salem

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