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96d8a12b5f57	7CE8F3872E67	Under the 23rd Amendment of the Constitution, the district of Columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purpose of the Electoral College. The electors are generally chosen by the candidates political party, but state laws vary on how the electors are selected and what their responsibilities are. The president only haves four years, it is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. When you vote for your state they have a thing called winner-take-all system that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate. However, Maine and Nebraska each have a variation of proportional representation. When the election is done they have a thing they do called Certificated of Ascertainment it lists all of the candidates who ran for president in your state along with the names of their respective electors. The Ascertainments are then sent to the Congress and then to the National Archives as part of the official records of the presidential election.	Evidence	Ineffective
9794b1134359	7CE8F3872E67	In the article of The Indefensible Electoral College its trying to ask you why even the best laid defenses of the system are wrong and it tells you why	Counterclaim	Adequate
13835c990e75	7CE8F3872E67	What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. chamber of commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? They were trying to abolishing the electoral college and they were not alone, according to a Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore thanks to the quirks of the electoral college won thwe popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now.	Evidence	Adequate
5584354d0e27	7CE8F3872E67	This is the thing that can not be changed because this is a system that we can pull up see what they were elected for and why they were voted president and how many times. It helps us how we can choose the right president or the right vice president.	Rebuttal	Ineffective
c02e38fd6909	7CE8F3872E67	In 1960 in Hawaii, Vice President Richard Nixon, who was president over the senate, validated only his opponents electors, but he made sure to do so without establishing a precedent. This happened a long time before i was born. You see only one state can casts only one vote in Wyoming,representing 500,000 voters, would have as much say as the 55 representatives from California,who represent 35 million voters. In 1968,a shift of just 41,971 votes would have deadlocked the election;in 1976, a tie would have occurred if a mere 5,559 voters on Ohio and 3,687 voters in Hawaii had voted the other way.	Evidence	Adequate
4a43f75110ca	7CE8F3872E67	In a article i read it says that there are five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the president. There are called Certainty of Outcome,Everyones President,Swing States,Big States, and the final one is Avoid Run-Off Elections.	Claim	Adequate
1250f6f4e18d	7CE8F3872E67	Each one tells us how choosing the president and shows us a map how it works and we can see which state shows a breakdown of the number of electoral votes given to each state. This is something that can help us understand how to vote and how long they will be the president or the vice president	Evidence	Ineffective
c45f4d555b86	7CE8F3872E67	i think that we should not change the Electoral College because how would it work without it and how would we pick the next president. This is a hard thing because it would take time to discusses it with the senators and it would take a lot of votes to agree or disagree to the idea. This is why i think that they should not change this because its been around longer before i was born.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
247c3c45386c	7CEB4836BAFA	I understand that you want us to do community service, but some people just don't have time to do things like that	Claim	Adequate
b70d22e7390b	7CEB4836BAFA	Like, say that you say we have to do it on a Saturday at 9:00am to 12:00pm not everybody can make that time.	Evidence	Adequate
b0460ae128d5	7CEB4836BAFA	Also not everybody want to do it.	Claim	Adequate
027968b0de54	7CEB4836BAFA	I think that you should do it at a different school because you are trying to force us to do community service and we don't want to do it. Why don't you get out of that desk and you do it too.	Evidence	Ineffective
71df9cf3358a	7CEB4836BAFA	Sorry, not to be mean, but I really want to do it, but I don't have time for it. I'm in the 8th grade and i get a lot of homework to do. And I have to keep up with my grades. And I have to focus on the CMT test that is coming up	Evidence	Adequate
e546574926a0	7CEB4836BAFA	I think that it should be optional weather we do community service.	Position	Adequate
3597588834b5	7CFABEFA5DFA	I have recently read an article by the name of ¨Driverless Cars Are Coming¨, and asked my opinion.	Lead	Ineffective
16832578b36d	7CFABEFA5DFA	I believe they could be very dangerous	Claim	Adequate
235ec0f4cf09	7CFABEFA5DFA	they´re many sensors and techology to do with the car, who is to say they couldn´t malfunction, or intercept waves a sentence from paragraph 4 indicates my fear,¨For starters, they needed a whole lot of sensors....Prius uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, rotatin sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensors....¨ and much more.	Evidence	Ineffective
9d6f8f782e39	7CFABEFA5DFA	I also believe the driverless cars could put the country in even more debt.	Claim	Adequate
b11538d91c42	7CFABEFA5DFA	In paragraph six they state that¨Radar was a device on a hilltop that cost two hundred million dollars.¨ The last time I herd the United States was eight trillion dollars in debt, should we really consider adding two hundred million per radar to that eight trillion?	Evidence	Ineffective
6656efb6b255	7CFABEFA5DFA	I also would like to go back to the subject of malfuctioning. If a driverless car malfunction, the company could possibly and most likely be sewed,	Claim	Adequate
9a2dbd53e780	7CFABEFA5DFA	we would have even more money added to that debt to try to prevent it from happening again and no one really knows spending all that money would even prevent it from malfunctioning again, and lastly we would have some very unhappy customers on our hands. We could be talking riots, people wanting their money back, shootings, killing.	Evidence	Ineffective
0fa33197fd2f	7CFABEFA5DFA	So many unanswered possibilites could go wrong with this idea and production of ¨driverless cars¨.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
33287ce744e7	7CFABEFA5DFA	I believe that ¨driverless cars¨ productivity should be shut down for what we don´t know could become of it in the future	Position	Adequate
0cec8a44f67a	7CFABEFA5DFA	wether it be money, mobs of angry customers or people that have been offected by them.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
f9dcec538823	7D14E283380C	It states that keeping the electoral college is a more promising way to vote for the president of the united states	Lead	Adequate
229bf8421441	7D14E283380C	If they change it to election by popular vote then it probably wont be fair.	Position	Adequate
47c507a5fb8b	7D14E283380C	Just like in 1960 when they send two slates of electors to congress but that was probably because they had the popular vote and not the elertoral college.	Evidence	Ineffective
e7acf5c6b870	7D14E283380C	The electoral college is a process,not a place people might have thought that is what place like maybe a college [school]. The thing is who ever thought that was wrong beacuse it was found by the father established it in the constitution as a compromise. Its a long story lets just cut to the chase the electoral college conists of 538 electors a majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect president.	Evidence	Ineffective
ee60ee6947c9	7D14E283380C	if you elect your president by the popular then the required number will be higher and possible wont have a president because they will never finsh counting the votes.	Counterclaim	Adequate
2dba2cd6710f	7D14E283380C	Electoral college is the best way to go beacuse like that will only have one slate of electors. But if the popular vote then most likely will end up with two or more slates of electors and personlitly I wouldnt like that	Evidence	Ineffective
eea95d0dd7c5	7D14E283380C	It would be better just to stick with the electoral college so people and the congress wouldnt have to go through so much work just to pick a president.	Claim	Adequate
35ed5a4dd860	7D14E283380C	Look also if the popular vote that doesnt mean that they will win most likely they will lose the predidency for example Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the presidency over 60 percent of the voters. See having the popular vote wouldnt be the best thing to do. Just stay with the electoral college dont make it so hard on people	Concluding Statement	Ineffective
a7e993323134	7D462AA4E1FC	I do not think that every student should be forced to do community service.	Position	Effective
f3c79a340b22	7D462AA4E1FC	All community service is voluntary work, if its not voluntary, then it is just work	Claim	Effective
ba5c1c97205b	7D462AA4E1FC	People who do community service enjoy and want to help the community, if they are forced to do community service, they would not perform to the best of their abilities and waste their time. This would not be best for the schools and the community.	Evidence	Effective
200fb5ef2ce6	7D462AA4E1FC	The concept of community service is that you go do your work that you got and you do it for free because you wanted to and you feel good about yourself.	Claim	Effective
015a384b7d34	7D462AA4E1FC	Forcing a person to do this would take away all the positive effects except maybe getting the job done. Community service isn't always needed either. So having a very random schedule would be very hard for the students to keep up with. This would cause stress to the students, teachers would have a hard time planning each day due to late notice help, and the community wouldn't get much help.	Evidence	Adequate
b5ab2e35dbc7	7D5909D8FBA3	Community service would be a great thing for every student to be required to do.	Position	Adequate
cae57ca6a1ff	7D5909D8FBA3	Even though some people may think it is a pretty big time waster	Counterclaim	Adequate
d00d83cbb6a8	7D5909D8FBA3	helping the community is doing an act of service, which every student should be able to enjoy.	Rebuttal	Adequate
4b87aaab21ec	7D5909D8FBA3	I believe that doing community service would help the community,	Claim	Adequate
b56e05f86c9f	7D5909D8FBA3	make students feel good	Claim	Adequate
7146eb6e5e14	7D5909D8FBA3	encourage good work skills	Claim	Adequate
fa0298cb64cd	7D5909D8FBA3	People always like having a good deed be done for them. People have jobs for each thing we could help out with, but they would LOVE for us to help them. I mean, wouldn't you like it if somebody helped you in your job? Doing community service is a great way to help us to feel good about the community.	Evidence	Adequate
adbbe321fd73	7D5909D8FBA3	The people who don't like the idea usually become pessimists who hate everything,	Counterclaim	Ineffective
c81cc87ab81b	7D5909D8FBA3	we wouldn't like to make students feel that way.	Rebuttal	Ineffective
b97bb34f4f0a	7D5909D8FBA3	We should encourage students to work hard for the community.	Evidence	Adequate
282243d75855	7D5909D8FBA3	Doing service means that you're doing something good, which makes you feel good about yourself. I think community service would help everybody - our community, our school, and the students. Requiring each student to do community service would be a great idea, and it might make the students feel better then they have been.	Evidence	Adequate
be391863a8e1	7D5909D8FBA3	They might feel so good about their decision, that they do some more service when it's not a requirement. It might change into a personal goal instead.	Evidence	Adequate
a0bdaca2d658	7D5909D8FBA3	Community service will change people's lives and attitudes for the better. They will be in a better mood, and they will live a more happier life.	Evidence	Adequate
e70d0d6ff71a	7D5909D8FBA3	I think it would be best to require community service for all students. Community service can help people, make students feel great, and encourage them to always do more. Community service is a great idea for the students to do and enjoy.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
57d03d5ee58d	7D681EE99FF3	it is a vote qualified by the citizen and the founding fathers established it in the constitution. all of the votes have to go to the electors and to the congress and then they pick the president and the vice president. the election is held every four years on the same month and day. the governor lists all of the people who ran for presidentin your state. the winner takes all system that awards all electors to the winning presidental canididate. the governor prepares a cerificate of ascertainment. the certificate of ascertainment also declares the winning presidental candidatein your state and shows which electors are representing your state. the 60 percent of the voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now.	Evidence	Ineffective
85efbe25d35a	7D681EE99FF3	you would have to vote for a slate if you want to vote for john kerry. not always do the voters control whom their electors vote for. seventeen states didnt see the candidates at all,including rhode island and south carolina. but each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee. in a state creates a landslide electoral-vote victory in that state. the popular vote was really close in florida in 2012.	Evidence	Ineffective
44751b844047	7D6BE3FB87CA	I Write to you about the Electional Colleges because, i beleive that it is fair to change it to which ever runner has the most votes will become president.	Position	Adequate
1011501ab86d	7D6BE3FB87CA	I understand that each candidate running for prsident has his or her own group of electors chosen by the political party but it depends if they chose their electors respondsibly	Evidence	Adequate
8c91a01701e2	7D6BE3FB87CA	Electoral College consists of 538 electors , but a majority of 270 votes are required to elect the president. Voters don't vote for the president they would have to vote for a a slate of democratic electors pledged to that person and if that person won they would go to congress and that runner would get that amount of electoral votes.	Evidence	Ineffective
b602191e4d82	7D6BE3FB87CA	But if a tie happens the electrol vote would go to the house of representatives where they would have to decide who the president will be and senates would decide who the Vice President would be.	Evidence	Ineffective
b7835aa7fc18	7D6BE3FB87CA	But in all my oppionion should be that who ever has the most popular vote will vbe prsedent.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
007de914a712	7E0264CD0ADF	The Electoral College, established by the Founding Fathers within the Constitution, was meant to serve as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and a popular vote of citizens. What the founding fathers failed to see was the many outstanding flaws within the Electoral College. For many imperative reasons that cannot be avoided,	Lead	Effective
d513eb0e7c3a	7E0264CD0ADF	elections must be changed to the method of popular vote, and the Electoral College must not be a part of the United States' elections any longer.	Position	Effective
8abb9e8ba180	7E0264CD0ADF	The first and foremost reason why the Electoral College should no longer be kept in the U.S is because it will only lead to negative consequences. This has been observed in the past, and it must be prevented from occuring once more. One element of this disaster factor is that electors could defy the will of the people.	Claim	Effective
400260e3122a	7E0264CD0ADF	Source 2 informs readers that state legislators are are technically responsible for picking electors. These electors could very easily decide to vote upon who they would like to see in office, rather than who the citizens want. The impact of this would be trecharous when the wrong person is elected as president. Source two quotes, "Back in 1960, segregationsists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the democratic electors with new electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy." This means that a popular vote for Kennedy would not have actually gone to Kennedy. How is that for a compromise between Congress and U.S voters?	Evidence	Effective
cc5ebf449d8a	7E0264CD0ADF	Furthermore, another way in which keeping the Electoral College would be disastorous would be seen in the case of a state sending two states of electors. Bradford Plumer reminded those in favor of the Electoral College that this has happened in Hawaii in 1960. Luckily, enormous downfall was avoided because Vice President Richard Nixon, presider over the Senate, validated his opponent's electors and did so "without establishing a precedent." However, America may not be so lucky the next time this may take place. Senators in each and every state must open their eyes and really see what is happening in their country. The U.S must change its elections to the popular vote system, where all of these impacts will be avoided. The Electoral College does nothing for its citizens, and states may send two states of electors to it, and for these reasons, America will face a very unhappy situation if we keep this system.	Evidence	Effective
b71e54ddfe5d	7E0264CD0ADF	Popular vote is a much better system than the Electoral College because unlike the Electoral College, it is actually fair for its citizens. America, which has suffered greatly to acheieve equality and liberty is held back by one thing-- the Electoral College. This is suffered by the United States' citizens because of the College's winner-take-all system.	Claim	Effective
c44cf5ae2d6d	7E0264CD0ADF	Through this, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states. Source 2 refers back to the 2000 campaign, saying, "...seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all...and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campaign ad." How can a president be properly elected with this system in place?	Evidence	Effective
14d145b4d7a7	7E0264CD0ADF	Source 3 attempts to discredit this claim, aguing, "Voters in toss-up states are more likely to pay close attention to the campaign..."	Counterclaim	Effective
1c85554528d7	7E0264CD0ADF	What they fail to realize is that those citizens may not even know who they are voting for! It is lucid that there is simply no valid argument for outting the fate of the presidency into the hands of a couple swing voters in a state.	Rebuttal	Adequate
26907494a05c	7E0264CD0ADF	In addition, as far as being unfair goes, there are also unpredicatable scenerios that may occur in elections. These scenerios are far from fair to anybody. For instance, there is always the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote. If that were to happen, the election would be thrown into the House of Representatives where voting would be handed over to state delegations.	Claim	Effective
883459fa7d64	7E0264CD0ADF	Plumer quotes, "Given that many voters vote one party for president and another for Congress, the House's selection can hardly be expected to...unfair." This would not happen if the U.S adopts the popular vote method, where the most popular candidate will win and reflect the citizens who placed him or her into office. The Electoral College is nothing other than unfair to the citizens who rely on it to elect their president.	Evidence	Effective
162fffccb1e8	7E0264CD0ADF	For many reasons, election methods must be changed to popular vote, and the Electoral College must be disgarded. It will only lead to a profound disaster, and it is also extremely biased and unfair. The United States must take action, one state at a time, to reverse the negative path it is on. This is the only way the U.S can finally reach its long term goal-- complete prosperity.	Concluding Statement	Effective
c6bc3a879391	7E026B760EA0	I think you should change the policy,	Position	Adequate
7529ba2e3e45	7E026B760EA0	students probably don't get an "B" just like that cause of there grades or low,	Claim	Adequate
606ca9f6b905	7E026B760EA0	some kids play good for sports	Claim	Ineffective
191069f5a129	7E026B760EA0	other kids would like to join.	Claim	Adequate
377116d67c67	7E026B760EA0	they be trying hard to pull up their grades but it won't wroth it cause you want let them participate because you want everybody that has an "A" or a "B" average. Another reason, why because students would look at you, and say "we tried ", and it would not be right to see other students playing.	Evidence	Adequate
f4ec8c8cdc0c	7E026B760EA0	students don't want to be in the class rooms all day just doing work or any other thing, instead of having fun with the other kids, and talking to their friends.	Evidence	Adequate
30b7146bf07c	7E026B760EA0	change the policy because other people would like to join.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
7fa191e2c516	7E3CDEFECEC6	I personally do not think that community service should be required by all students.	Position	Effective
b94f914db7d9	7E3CDEFECEC6	Yes, community service is beneficial to the community, but students need to focus on one thing, and one thing only. School.	Claim	Effective
89acdcefd898	7E3CDEFECEC6	I believe that community service can be an extracurricular activity outside of school, if anything.	Claim	Effective
7ccc808f0b37	7E3CDEFECEC6	You see, I know how it's like to be a student, as do you, and I think we can both agree on how hectic situations can get throughout the year. Homework becomes burdensome at times, schoolwork becomes tedious. Your life is bifurcated between school and outside of school, leaving almost no room for anything else.	Evidence	Effective
77f7ca8fd25e	7E3CDEFECEC6	If you were to make community service mandatory at school, how do you think that will unravel? For all you know, petitions could be made by my fellow classmates. I'm sure some of my peers agree with my point of view regarding this topic.	Evidence	Effective
88c8f1f22f3d	7E3E96B4F614	Dear state senator, I think that we should change to start voting by popular vote	Position	Effective
5ac694b7f297	7E3E96B4F614	it will be easier for the voters	Claim	Effective
1dac6d234099	7E3E96B4F614	is a more realistic way of voting.	Claim	Effective
d91cbe023513	7E3E96B4F614	When voting and following the rules of the electoral college, many voters get confused.	Claim	Effective
ab3e2bf4a685	7E3E96B4F614	As is says in source 2, many voters vote for the wrong person. They also don't always get controll over who they vote for. Say they voted for one canidate to be their state senator, well with that one person comes many people that have "pledged" themselves to that canidate. They would be voting for the canidate and these many people that have pledged themselves to him and they don't even know it. Also as they say in source 2, the election of 2000 was a huge mishap in presidential election history. In states like Louisiana, they had people replace democratic electors so that the popular vote that would've went to one of the canidates, didn't actually go through.	Evidence	Effective
c0a1b17b3be7	7E3E96B4F614	Although the electoral college is good for getting exact numbers and helps solve disputes( source 3)	Counterclaim	Effective
9219bd4bb86f	7E3E96B4F614	it is an uruly and untrustworthy way of voting and should not be used anymore. Voters are easily confused when voting and many do not follow up on what is happening during election time.	Rebuttal	Effective
c6f36b3e7db9	7E3E96B4F614	I think that a better way to votee would be to vote more often and give the electors another chance to be relected so that after a few months if voters changed their mind then they could reelect someone else.	Claim	Effective
a039e109765b	7E3E96B4F614	Popular vote is a much better idea not only becuase it is more realistic, but because it is easier to understand. Even some of our presidents like Richard Nixon and Bob Dole have thought that this was the way to go. Not only do they believe this, but they lost their presidency votes becuase of the electoral college. I think that they are just trying to scam voters and pick someone that would be best for them, not for our country. I think that by using the electoral college method, they are cheating into picking the winners, but if we used popular vote, this wouldnt happen.	Concluding Statement	Effective
691555c4bb15	7E4687A7CAB1	Throughout history, mankind has depended on hands-on work for critical purposes. However, technology has evolved as a tool to assist us to do labor more efficiently and quickly. It is an important decision whether or not to support driverless cars because it can affect the conflicts due to this choice. Human error has been a common factor for automobile accidents across the nation, which has claimed many lives.	Lead	Adequate
6f1a25eae926	7E4687A7CAB1	Driverless cars can be another tool for the human population that could save lives.	Position	Adequate
6bbe52ab1094	7E4687A7CAB1	To begin with, manufacturers have tinkered on this project for many years by several strategies such as General Motors and their concept car that ran on a unique test track. It began in the 1950s, using binary code to alert the car system. Unfortunately, upgrades in that period of time were too expensive to be used widespread. This began the alternative option of smarter cars, rather than intellegent roads to assist drivers. Likewise, the government is obstinant on testing for every single liability smarter cars can be held for. It is above all priorities for the smarter cars to ensure complete saftey from dangerous hazard conditions on the road. To prevent such conditions, developers considered the use of driverless cars to assist drivers instead of total control at all times. Furthermore, scientists and engineers have added ideas from each other, enabling cars to even sensor dangerous obstacles. For example, the BMW "Traffic Jam Assistant," is one of the many cars that can preform driverless to a certain extent, allowing for a human driver to access the controls if necessary.	Evidence	Adequate
afaa1c41efc1	7E4687A7CAB1	This evidence concludes that driverless cars are potential as a wonderful tool to help in the saftey of others in a vehicle.	Claim	Adequate
4fb2442c0a3d	7E4687A7CAB1	Driverless cars could be the next common technology among the human population like computers or phones. From this, humanity will continue evolving and strive through conflicts similar to this subject. However, another choice for us, individually is whether or not to accept change.	Concluding Statement	Ineffective
9ec236e4ada3	7E492FFD9778	In the article Driverless Cars Are Coming, they talk about the positive and negative things that could happen.	Lead	Ineffective
3edece387ae3	7E492FFD9778	This essay is going to be against the article because a driverless car doesn't sound safe to some.	Position	Adequate
2993f2ba0bcf	7E492FFD9778	If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault- the driver or the manufacturer?	Claim	Adequate
b91d77fcbac1	7E492FFD9778	If you are in a car but the car is driving itself, what are you suppose to do if the car has a malfunction and you cant control it? Just because it is on television doesn't mean it needs to be brought to life so accidents can happen.	Evidence	Adequate

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Under the 23rd Amendment of the Constitution, the district of Columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purpose of the Electoral College. The electors are generally chosen by the candidates political party, but state laws vary on how the electors are selected and what their responsibilities are. The president only haves four years, it is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. When you vote for your state they have a thing called winner-take-all system that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate. However, Maine and Nebraska each have a variation of proportional representation. When the election is done they have a thing they do called Certificated of Ascertainment it lists all of the candidates who ran for president in your state along with the names of their respective electors. The Ascertainments are then sent to the Congress and then to the National Archives as part of the official records of the presidential election.

Evidence

Ineffective

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In the article of The Indefensible Electoral College its trying to ask you why even the best laid defenses of the system are wrong and it tells you why

Counterclaim

Adequate

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What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. chamber of commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? They were trying to abolishing the electoral college and they were not alone, according to a Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore thanks to the quirks of the electoral college won thwe popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now.

Evidence

Adequate

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This is the thing that can not be changed because this is a system that we can pull up see what they were elected for and why they were voted president and how many times. It helps us how we can choose the right president or the right vice president.

Rebuttal

Ineffective

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In 1960 in Hawaii, Vice President Richard Nixon, who was president over the senate, validated only his opponents electors, but he made sure to do so without establishing a precedent. This happened a long time before i was born. You see only one state can casts only one vote in Wyoming,representing 500,000 voters, would have as much say as the 55 representatives from California,who represent 35 million voters. In 1968,a shift of just 41,971 votes would have deadlocked the election;in 1976, a tie would have occurred if a mere 5,559 voters on Ohio and 3,687 voters in Hawaii had voted the other way.

Evidence

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In a article i read it says that there are five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the president. There are called Certainty of Outcome,Everyones President,Swing States,Big States, and the final one is Avoid Run-Off Elections.

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Each one tells us how choosing the president and shows us a map how it works and we can see which state shows a breakdown of the number of electoral votes given to each state. This is something that can help us understand how to vote and how long they will be the president or the vice president

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i think that we should not change the Electoral College because how would it work without it and how would we pick the next president. This is a hard thing because it would take time to discusses it with the senators and it would take a lot of votes to agree or disagree to the idea. This is why i think that they should not change this because its been around longer before i was born.

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I understand that you want us to do community service, but some people just don't have time to do things like that

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Like, say that you say we have to do it on a Saturday at 9:00am to 12:00pm not everybody can make that time.

Evidence

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Also not everybody want to do it.

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I think that you should do it at a different school because you are trying to force us to do community service and we don't want to do it. Why don't you get out of that desk and you do it too.

Evidence

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Sorry, not to be mean, but I really want to do it, but I don't have time for it. I'm in the 8th grade and i get a lot of homework to do. And I have to keep up with my grades. And I have to focus on the CMT test that is coming up

Evidence

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I think that it should be optional weather we do community service.

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I have recently read an article by the name of ¨Driverless Cars Are Coming¨, and asked my opinion.

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I believe they could be very dangerous

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they´re many sensors and techology to do with the car, who is to say they couldn´t malfunction, or intercept waves a sentence from paragraph 4 indicates my fear,¨For starters, they needed a whole lot of sensors....Prius uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, rotatin sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensors....¨ and much more.

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I also believe the driverless cars could put the country in even more debt.

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In paragraph six they state that¨Radar was a device on a hilltop that cost two hundred million dollars.¨ The last time I herd the United States was eight trillion dollars in debt, should we really consider adding two hundred million per radar to that eight trillion?

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I also would like to go back to the subject of malfuctioning. If a driverless car malfunction, the company could possibly and most likely be sewed,

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we would have even more money added to that debt to try to prevent it from happening again and no one really knows spending all that money would even prevent it from malfunctioning again, and lastly we would have some very unhappy customers on our hands. We could be talking riots, people wanting their money back, shootings, killing.

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So many unanswered possibilites could go wrong with this idea and production of ¨driverless cars¨.

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I believe that ¨driverless cars¨ productivity should be shut down for what we don´t know could become of it in the future

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wether it be money, mobs of angry customers or people that have been offected by them.

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It states that keeping the electoral college is a more promising way to vote for the president of the united states

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If they change it to election by popular vote then it probably wont be fair.

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Just like in 1960 when they send two slates of electors to congress but that was probably because they had the popular vote and not the elertoral college.

Evidence

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The electoral college is a process,not a place people might have thought that is what place like maybe a college [school]. The thing is who ever thought that was wrong beacuse it was found by the father established it in the constitution as a compromise. Its a long story lets just cut to the chase the electoral college conists of 538 electors a majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect president.

Evidence

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if you elect your president by the popular then the required number will be higher and possible wont have a president because they will never finsh counting the votes.

Counterclaim

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Electoral college is the best way to go beacuse like that will only have one slate of electors. But if the popular vote then most likely will end up with two or more slates of electors and personlitly I wouldnt like that

Evidence

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It would be better just to stick with the electoral college so people and the congress wouldnt have to go through so much work just to pick a president.

Claim

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Look also if the popular vote that doesnt mean that they will win most likely they will lose the predidency for example Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the presidency over 60 percent of the voters. See having the popular vote wouldnt be the best thing to do. Just stay with the electoral college dont make it so hard on people

Concluding Statement

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I do not think that every student should be forced to do community service.

Position

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All community service is voluntary work, if its not voluntary, then it is just work

Claim

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People who do community service enjoy and want to help the community, if they are forced to do community service, they would not perform to the best of their abilities and waste their time. This would not be best for the schools and the community.

Evidence

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The concept of community service is that you go do your work that you got and you do it for free because you wanted to and you feel good about yourself.

Claim

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Forcing a person to do this would take away all the positive effects except maybe getting the job done. Community service isn't always needed either. So having a very random schedule would be very hard for the students to keep up with. This would cause stress to the students, teachers would have a hard time planning each day due to late notice help, and the community wouldn't get much help.

Evidence

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Community service would be a great thing for every student to be required to do.

Position

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Even though some people may think it is a pretty big time waster

Counterclaim

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helping the community is doing an act of service, which every student should be able to enjoy.

Rebuttal

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I believe that doing community service would help the community,

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make students feel good

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encourage good work skills

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People always like having a good deed be done for them. People have jobs for each thing we could help out with, but they would LOVE for us to help them. I mean, wouldn't you like it if somebody helped you in your job? Doing community service is a great way to help us to feel good about the community.

Evidence

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The people who don't like the idea usually become pessimists who hate everything,

Counterclaim

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we wouldn't like to make students feel that way.

Rebuttal

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We should encourage students to work hard for the community.

Evidence

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Doing service means that you're doing something good, which makes you feel good about yourself. I think community service would help everybody - our community, our school, and the students. Requiring each student to do community service would be a great idea, and it might make the students feel better then they have been.

Evidence

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They might feel so good about their decision, that they do some more service when it's not a requirement. It might change into a personal goal instead.

Evidence

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Community service will change people's lives and attitudes for the better. They will be in a better mood, and they will live a more happier life.

Evidence

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I think it would be best to require community service for all students. Community service can help people, make students feel great, and encourage them to always do more. Community service is a great idea for the students to do and enjoy.

Concluding Statement

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it is a vote qualified by the citizen and the founding fathers established it in the constitution. all of the votes have to go to the electors and to the congress and then they pick the president and the vice president. the election is held every four years on the same month and day. the governor lists all of the people who ran for presidentin your state. the winner takes all system that awards all electors to the winning presidental canididate. the governor prepares a cerificate of ascertainment. the certificate of ascertainment also declares the winning presidental candidatein your state and shows which electors are representing your state. the 60 percent of the voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now.

Evidence

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you would have to vote for a slate if you want to vote for john kerry. not always do the voters control whom their electors vote for. seventeen states didnt see the candidates at all,including rhode island and south carolina. but each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee. in a state creates a landslide electoral-vote victory in that state. the popular vote was really close in florida in 2012.

Evidence

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I Write to you about the Electional Colleges because, i beleive that it is fair to change it to which ever runner has the most votes will become president.

Position

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I understand that each candidate running for prsident has his or her own group of electors chosen by the political party but it depends if they chose their electors respondsibly

Evidence

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Electoral College consists of 538 electors , but a majority of 270 votes are required to elect the president. Voters don't vote for the president they would have to vote for a a slate of democratic electors pledged to that person and if that person won they would go to congress and that runner would get that amount of electoral votes.

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But if a tie happens the electrol vote would go to the house of representatives where they would have to decide who the president will be and senates would decide who the Vice President would be.

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But in all my oppionion should be that who ever has the most popular vote will vbe prsedent.

Concluding Statement

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The Electoral College, established by the Founding Fathers within the Constitution, was meant to serve as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and a popular vote of citizens. What the founding fathers failed to see was the many outstanding flaws within the Electoral College. For many imperative reasons that cannot be avoided,

Lead

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elections must be changed to the method of popular vote, and the Electoral College must not be a part of the United States' elections any longer.

Position

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The first and foremost reason why the Electoral College should no longer be kept in the U.S is because it will only lead to negative consequences. This has been observed in the past, and it must be prevented from occuring once more. One element of this disaster factor is that electors could defy the will of the people.

Claim

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Source 2 informs readers that state legislators are are technically responsible for picking electors. These electors could very easily decide to vote upon who they would like to see in office, rather than who the citizens want. The impact of this would be trecharous when the wrong person is elected as president. Source two quotes, "Back in 1960, segregationsists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the democratic electors with new electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy." This means that a popular vote for Kennedy would not have actually gone to Kennedy. How is that for a compromise between Congress and U.S voters?

Evidence

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Furthermore, another way in which keeping the Electoral College would be disastorous would be seen in the case of a state sending two states of electors. Bradford Plumer reminded those in favor of the Electoral College that this has happened in Hawaii in 1960. Luckily, enormous downfall was avoided because Vice President Richard Nixon, presider over the Senate, validated his opponent's electors and did so "without establishing a precedent." However, America may not be so lucky the next time this may take place. Senators in each and every state must open their eyes and really see what is happening in their country. The U.S must change its elections to the popular vote system, where all of these impacts will be avoided. The Electoral College does nothing for its citizens, and states may send two states of electors to it, and for these reasons, America will face a very unhappy situation if we keep this system.

Evidence

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Popular vote is a much better system than the Electoral College because unlike the Electoral College, it is actually fair for its citizens. America, which has suffered greatly to acheieve equality and liberty is held back by one thing-- the Electoral College. This is suffered by the United States' citizens because of the College's winner-take-all system.

Claim

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Through this, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states. Source 2 refers back to the 2000 campaign, saying, "...seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all...and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campaign ad." How can a president be properly elected with this system in place?

Evidence

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Source 3 attempts to discredit this claim, aguing, "Voters in toss-up states are more likely to pay close attention to the campaign..."

Counterclaim

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What they fail to realize is that those citizens may not even know who they are voting for! It is lucid that there is simply no valid argument for outting the fate of the presidency into the hands of a couple swing voters in a state.

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In addition, as far as being unfair goes, there are also unpredicatable scenerios that may occur in elections. These scenerios are far from fair to anybody. For instance, there is always the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote. If that were to happen, the election would be thrown into the House of Representatives where voting would be handed over to state delegations.

Claim

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Plumer quotes, "Given that many voters vote one party for president and another for Congress, the House's selection can hardly be expected to...unfair." This would not happen if the U.S adopts the popular vote method, where the most popular candidate will win and reflect the citizens who placed him or her into office. The Electoral College is nothing other than unfair to the citizens who rely on it to elect their president.

Evidence

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For many reasons, election methods must be changed to popular vote, and the Electoral College must be disgarded. It will only lead to a profound disaster, and it is also extremely biased and unfair. The United States must take action, one state at a time, to reverse the negative path it is on. This is the only way the U.S can finally reach its long term goal-- complete prosperity.

Concluding Statement

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I think you should change the policy,

Position

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students probably don't get an "B" just like that cause of there grades or low,

Claim

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some kids play good for sports

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other kids would like to join.

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they be trying hard to pull up their grades but it won't wroth it cause you want let them participate because you want everybody that has an "A" or a "B" average. Another reason, why because students would look at you, and say "we tried ", and it would not be right to see other students playing.

Evidence

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students don't want to be in the class rooms all day just doing work or any other thing, instead of having fun with the other kids, and talking to their friends.

Evidence

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change the policy because other people would like to join.

Concluding Statement

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I personally do not think that community service should be required by all students.

Position

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Yes, community service is beneficial to the community, but students need to focus on one thing, and one thing only. School.

Claim

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I believe that community service can be an extracurricular activity outside of school, if anything.

Claim

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You see, I know how it's like to be a student, as do you, and I think we can both agree on how hectic situations can get throughout the year. Homework becomes burdensome at times, schoolwork becomes tedious. Your life is bifurcated between school and outside of school, leaving almost no room for anything else.

Evidence

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If you were to make community service mandatory at school, how do you think that will unravel? For all you know, petitions could be made by my fellow classmates. I'm sure some of my peers agree with my point of view regarding this topic.

Evidence

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Dear state senator, I think that we should change to start voting by popular vote

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it will be easier for the voters

Claim

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is a more realistic way of voting.

Claim

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When voting and following the rules of the electoral college, many voters get confused.

Claim

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As is says in source 2, many voters vote for the wrong person. They also don't always get controll over who they vote for. Say they voted for one canidate to be their state senator, well with that one person comes many people that have "pledged" themselves to that canidate. They would be voting for the canidate and these many people that have pledged themselves to him and they don't even know it. Also as they say in source 2, the election of 2000 was a huge mishap in presidential election history. In states like Louisiana, they had people replace democratic electors so that the popular vote that would've went to one of the canidates, didn't actually go through.

Evidence

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Although the electoral college is good for getting exact numbers and helps solve disputes( source 3)

Counterclaim

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it is an uruly and untrustworthy way of voting and should not be used anymore. Voters are easily confused when voting and many do not follow up on what is happening during election time.

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I think that a better way to votee would be to vote more often and give the electors another chance to be relected so that after a few months if voters changed their mind then they could reelect someone else.

Claim

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Popular vote is a much better idea not only becuase it is more realistic, but because it is easier to understand. Even some of our presidents like Richard Nixon and Bob Dole have thought that this was the way to go. Not only do they believe this, but they lost their presidency votes becuase of the electoral college. I think that they are just trying to scam voters and pick someone that would be best for them, not for our country. I think that by using the electoral college method, they are cheating into picking the winners, but if we used popular vote, this wouldnt happen.

Concluding Statement

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Throughout history, mankind has depended on hands-on work for critical purposes. However, technology has evolved as a tool to assist us to do labor more efficiently and quickly. It is an important decision whether or not to support driverless cars because it can affect the conflicts due to this choice. Human error has been a common factor for automobile accidents across the nation, which has claimed many lives.

Lead

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Driverless cars can be another tool for the human population that could save lives.

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To begin with, manufacturers have tinkered on this project for many years by several strategies such as General Motors and their concept car that ran on a unique test track. It began in the 1950s, using binary code to alert the car system. Unfortunately, upgrades in that period of time were too expensive to be used widespread. This began the alternative option of smarter cars, rather than intellegent roads to assist drivers. Likewise, the government is obstinant on testing for every single liability smarter cars can be held for. It is above all priorities for the smarter cars to ensure complete saftey from dangerous hazard conditions on the road. To prevent such conditions, developers considered the use of driverless cars to assist drivers instead of total control at all times. Furthermore, scientists and engineers have added ideas from each other, enabling cars to even sensor dangerous obstacles. For example, the BMW "Traffic Jam Assistant," is one of the many cars that can preform driverless to a certain extent, allowing for a human driver to access the controls if necessary.

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This evidence concludes that driverless cars are potential as a wonderful tool to help in the saftey of others in a vehicle.

Claim

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Driverless cars could be the next common technology among the human population like computers or phones. From this, humanity will continue evolving and strive through conflicts similar to this subject. However, another choice for us, individually is whether or not to accept change.

Concluding Statement

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In the article Driverless Cars Are Coming, they talk about the positive and negative things that could happen.

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This essay is going to be against the article because a driverless car doesn't sound safe to some.

Position

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If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault- the driver or the manufacturer?

Claim

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If you are in a car but the car is driving itself, what are you suppose to do if the car has a malfunction and you cant control it? Just because it is on television doesn't mean it needs to be brought to life so accidents can happen.

Evidence

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