As governor he got his state signed on to the national popular vote interstate compact

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      We should have a good reason to to swap, especially to something they purposely avoided.

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        And we do. It seems silly to hold their wishes in such high regard compared to our own anyway though, we know more about how our system works in practice than they did when thinking of it after all, both because things dont often go completely as planned and we have the actual experience of using the result for a significant time, and because the system has been already changed in various ways already over that time.

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        What is the good reason to keep it? That our slave-driving wealthy elite founders were infallible?

        Tread on me harder, daddy.