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Edgar letter: Popular vote

In the last presidential election, one candidate received the most popular votes and the other person will become our president. That doesn’t seem right to me somehow. Perhaps it is time to dump the outmoded Electoral College and simply choose our president by direct vote. Back in the beginning years of America, there were no cars, no radios and no public highways. Well, that has changed, folks.

Tom Edgar, Boise

This story was originally published December 14, 2016 at 3:50 PM with the headline "Edgar letter: Popular vote."

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