[EM] In defense of the Electoral College (was Re: Making a Bad Thing Worse)

[Jonathan Lundell]

On Nov 7, 2008, at 2:09 AM, Markus Schulze wrote:

> Second: It makes it possible that the elections
> are run by the governments of the individual
> states and don't have to be run by the central
> government.
>
> [Currently, to guarantee that the Equal Protection
> Clause is fulfilled, it is only necessary to
> guarantee that all the voters within the same
> state are treated equally.
>
> A popular vote would make it necessary that also
> all the voters across the USA are treated equally.
> This would mean that also the regulations on
> eligibility, absentee ballots, early voting,
> voting machines, opening hours of the polling
> stations etc. would have to be harmonized across
> the USA.]

And this would be, on balance, a bad thing because...?