To the editor:
Donald J. Trump complains mightily about election fraud in our presidential elections and there is an element of truth in his complaint. That element of truth has nothing to do with election
officials as Donald J. claims. It has to do with all of us and why we tolerate the Electoral College. We have tolerated two fraudulent presidential elections in the Twenty-first Century and the other fraudulent presidential elections because of the Electoral College.
Our toleration of the Electoral College has the potential to defraud ourselves of a fair presidential election every four years. Why? Because the results from the so called battleground states deny each voter, nationwide, the right to one person one vote. Hillary received almost three million more popular votes nationwide than Donald J. in 2016. Al Gore received almost one million more popular votes nationwide than W. in 2000.
We should ask ourselves why we juxtapose the equity contained in the nationwide popular vote of our Presidential elections against the obvious inequity imposed upon ourselves by the electoral college in those same elections. When a group becomes psychotic and that psychosis is so widespread that it becomes unrecognizable by the members of that group, then we have a condition that is called a normative psychosis. Is this our condition relative to the electoral college?
So yes, there is fraud in our presidential elections but the fraud is one that we continue to perpetrate upon ourselves by maintaining the Electoral College.
Richard Scheiber
Cabot
