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The Electoral College was created because the Founding Fathers needed a way to choose a president without political parties, without national campaigns, and without upsetting the carefully designed balance between the presidency and the Congress on one
hand and between the States and the federal government on the other. Then, a so called
"Committee of Eleven" in the Constitutional Convention proposed an indirect election of
the president through a College of Electors (Electoral College). ...
The first design of the Electoral College lasted through only four presidential
elections. ... One of the
accidental results of political parties was that in the presidential election of 1800, the Electors of the Democratic-Republican Party gave Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr (from the same party) an equal number of electoral votes.
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