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Readers write: How America can learn to trust elections again

Scrap the electoral college?

Thank you for the story “How America lost trust in elections – and why that matters” from the June 3 Weekly. It is very long and thorough. Unfortunately, it focuses on many details, rather than on the most important principle of a democracy. Two of the last four presidents before Joe Biden did not receive

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