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...Awarding a state's electoral votes on a winner-take-all basis makes no sense. To change the Electoral College system, a constitutional amendment is required, not an easy task. It is high time, however, for a democratic America to consult its citizens on this issue. Johan Remen Fredrikstad, Norway I became a U.S. citizen in 1968, and I believe that voting is the most important part of citizenship. I have been amazed that the system is so disorganized - flawed voter lists, machines that have no verifiable paper trail, and different election rules in different states. Compared with many other...
...German Navy, locking in further supply ships, and lightening the blockaders' sea-patrol task. By sowing so wide an area, even if sketchily, they would make arduous work for Nazi minesweepers, already working overtime to clear the Skagerrak and Kattegat. Nevertheless, nine more Nazi troopships made landings inside Fredrikstad before the week's end. A lot of noise at sea Thursday and Friday which observers took for heavy fighting was doubtless German countermining, i.e., firing depth charges to explode mines which, if laid too close together, may be touched off like a string of firecrackers...
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