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Mark Q. Rhoads’ letter (“Making sure Illinois’s electoral votes count,” Jan. 6) defending the Electoral College by conjuring up the chaos created by a national recount similar to the Florida recount has one glaring flaw.
Without the Electoral College, there would have been no need for a recount anywhere in 2000. Al Gore had a comfortable margin of victory in the popular vote to become president. We wouldn’t be bogged down in Iraq, we might still have a budget surplus, and Gore probably would have read the August 2001 memo warning of a possible terrorist attack.
