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Re: Florida records retention schedule question



Tom Anderson wrote:

> No one questions J. Q. Adams' legitimacy as president
> and he won the electoral vote while losing the popular vote to Andrew
> Jackson.

Speak for yourself. John Quincy Adams in 1824 and Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876 were the de facto presidents only. Neither
was legitimate. If the world were fair -- which it ain't -- the presidents would have been Jackson in 1824, Tilden in
1876, and Gore in 2000.

It's high time to junk that elitist Hamiltonian relic, the Electoral College. An oligarchy might need it, a democracy
doesn't.

Cheers!

Eric

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