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To the Editor: The Electoral College is Hardly Necessary to Democracy. The history that Weiland Ross offers in âThe Electoral College protects democracyâ (4/2) ignores the role that slavery played in the origins of the Electoral College. Under the Electoral College system, a fraction of a stateâs slave population was taken into account in determining how many representatives the slave states would have in Congress, increasing the number of electoral votes they could cast. Since slaves could not vote, choosing the president by popular vote have given slave states far less power. It is very unlikely that, as noted in Magdalena Usateguiâs recent commentary on the same subject, âA slaveholding Virginian was President for 32 of the first 36 years that the Constitution governed our countryâ had the president been selected by popular vote. Apart from this glaring omission of history, Ross never really supports his basic premise that âThe E ....
Editor’s note: This commentary is by Weiland Ross, a resident of Sunderland. He is a life member of NEA who served for 30 years as the chief contract negotiator for the school in which he worked, and also has served on the local school board in his Vermont town. Our next elections in Vermont are the town meeting votes for municipal and education budgets. Municipal budgets are usually not a problem. Most selectboards are careful, if not frugal, spenders. Their budgets routinely pass without much discussion. Education budgets also generally are approved routinely. This is the year that this habit absolutely must change. Vermont’s economy is in dire straits. The local education budgets must be scrutinized and challenged before they are approved. On Dec. 1, Vermont Tax Commissioner Craig Bolio, in a letter to be sent to the Legislature, projected a 9% rise in education property taxes next year. The “education property taxes” are all local. They are levied to cover ea ....