Source 1: What Is the Electoral College?

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The American people should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century; the system allows for much worse. ... winner-take-all basis, even a very slight plurality6 in a state creates a landslide electoral-vote victory in that state. A tie in the nationwide electoral vote is

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