If the title of this book has caught your eye, spend a couple
of minutes
to look at
the following
list of statements
relevant
to American
presidential
elections:
1. The system
for electing
a President
was not designed to reflect the popular
will.
2. The current
election
system
does not follow
some major ideas of the Founding
Fathers.
3. The application
of some election
rules can make the intervention
of the
Supreme Court in the election
process
almost inevitable.
4. Amendment
12 of the Constitution
contains
at least seven puzzles
relating
to presidential
elections,
and the answers to these puzzles
have remained
unknown for more than 200 years.
5. The text of Article
2 of the Constitution
contains
a statement
that is equivalent
to the assertion
that “0=1”.
6. Skillful
use of the election
system
may elect a President
with less than 20 %
of popular
support.
7. Applying
some election
rules may cause a constitutional
crisis
in the country.
8. Votes cast by voters
in a presidential
election
in November
of the election
year are not votes for President
or for Vice President.
9. The “winner-
take-all” method for awarding
state electoral
votes can be used
to encourage
presidential
candidates
to fight for each and every vote in a state
and in D.C.
10. Many statements
about the Electoral
College
mechanism
are no more than
myths of their authors, no matter
how plausible
these myths may seem.
11. A tie in the Electoral
College
may not necessarily
be resolved in favor of a person
with support
from at least 26 delegations
in the House of Representatives.
12. There is no need to get rid of the Electoral
College
to make every vote cast
valuable
in deciding
the election
outcome.
If these statements
bother or intrigue you, and you want the explanations,
this book is written
for you. This book is the author’s second
book to discuss
in
a simple
manner
the logical
fundamentals
of the system
for electing
a President.
(The first one [1] is a monograph
discussing
these fundamentals,
along with the
mathematics
of U.S. presidential
elections.)