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Presidential election popular vote tallies lined up against “did not vote” (mbin.grits.dev)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Also to clarify further, the founding fathers created the EC specifically to override the popular vote, because they were afraid that land owning men might be too poorly educated to actually make decisions about our "democracy."

Really let that sink in. They probably would have opposed the expansion of voting rights to anybody.