tasksource/argument-feedback · Datasets at Hugging Face

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2f7f38aa0178	881F756EF94A	The winner take all method of awarding electoral votes induces the canidates as we saw in 2012's election	Claim	Ineffective
01f44ca0f54f	881F756EF94A	voters in toss-up states are most likely to pay close attention to the campaign. they are likely to be the most thoughtful voters, average and the most thoughtful voters hsould be the ones to dcide the election.	Evidence	Adequate
8baff4475ef4	8842FE99EC98	The electoral college method is a process that consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for the President and the Vice president, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress. This means that that people are not directly voting for who they want to be president but voting for an elector that then places a vote. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a comprimise between election of the president by a vote in Congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors, and a majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. But the other process of voting for a president is what we have now, it is called the popular vote, in which people go to a place where there are machines that you can place your vote for the president you want elected, the person with the most votes becomes the president of the United States and the person that lost the popular vote is elected vice president.	Evidence	Ineffective
f92c9a2f4f96	8842FE99EC98	You may ask, well what is wrong with the Electoral College system? Well under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president	Claim	Adequate
9e0e6c186eef	8842FE99EC98	Some people are very serious about their choice of the president they take their time to learn what the president could do for them and their state and country. So when that much time is put in to making that vote people would get mad if a person with an entirely different idea just takes their vote and places it wherever they want.	Evidence	Adequate
4864f1e7c59a	8842FE99EC98	The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic mothod of selcting a president that should be overruled by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
251ae7cfaecf	8842FE99EC98	Since the electoral college is so old I think it is time to ebolish it!	Position	Effective
a331045a4313	888D36BD7FD3	I think students shouldn't have to perform community service	Position	Adequate
266dcfd39c03	888D36BD7FD3	because students sometimes have issues at home were they cant stay after school for activities	Claim	Effective
e185bc156cc2	888D36BD7FD3	One reason they might not be able to do community service is because they might have a love one that is sick at home and they have to be there for there aid. Second reason is because a student might have financial problems at home were they may have to take on a part time job after school to help around the household with payments. The final reason is that student there self may have health issues forbidding them from doing any community service. Those are the reasons why a student may not be able to do community work after school because of personal issues.	Evidence	Effective
80b03cb847f7	888D36BD7FD3	Also students shouldn't have to perform community service because they might have other activities, clubs, groups or sport related things happening after school.	Claim	Effective
49eb57321e25	888D36BD7FD3	One reason is they might be too busy after school everyday to do anything else on the side such as being on a sports team for the town or at school. Second reason is because they might be in a church group that meets everyday to sing or study. The final reason is because a student may just be busy doing regular things like watching a relative after school while their parent or guardian is at work.	Evidence	Effective
e5edb165f843	888D36BD7FD3	Now even though my opinion is no doesn't mean community service shouldn't be done it just shouldn't be forced on students to do.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
0ac8f649302c	8892A2EB9E0C	In 1976 a mars global surveyor image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. Twenty five years ago a "human face" was photographed on Mars. NASA'S Viking 1 spacecraft was trying to photograph possible landing area for the Viking 1 spacecraft's siter, Viking 2. When they were capturing photos they came across a face. Now you're saying that it was created by aliens.	Lead	Adequate
b8ac47554bdc	8892A2EB9E0C	If it was formed by aliens, Where did the aliens go?	Claim	Ineffective
40d6a1c0ba34	8892A2EB9E0C	Where did they come from? How do you know for sure that aliens exist there has been no sightings of "Aliens". Nothing can live on Mars. If so why are they not still there.	Evidence	Ineffective
2d246264007e	8892A2EB9E0C	It was a Martian mesa, common enough around Cyndonia,	Claim	Adequate
9fa2b4b745ea	8892A2EB9E0C	it only had ONE unusual shadow. No more than one unusual form. We had researchers, we also had all the right rescources to figure it was only a Martian mesa. Where is your evidence that it was aliens.	Evidence	Adequate
fc621a3f4d0d	8892A2EB9E0C	It was just a landform that was formed on Mars.	Position	Adequate
7783625b715e	8892A2EB9E0C	They only sent it out to attract attention to NASA. When it did it got way to out of control.	Evidence	Ineffective
c7f9e79aca91	8892A2EB9E0C	The article also said that "the camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds"	Evidence	Adequate
46e20aad88d2	8892A2EB9E0C	If a high tech camera can't see through clouds then how could "Aliens" see through it.	Claim	Adequate
87ef1ff80097	8892A2EB9E0C	The landform was equivalent of a butte or mesa, those are landforms common around the American West. If it wan't a common landform then maybe I would believe you.	Evidence	Adequate
e1391f5660e3	8892A2EB9E0C	It was not "aliens" sorry to dissapoint you. If you could please have more research next time, that would be great. Evidence is apart of what we do here at NASA.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
ac4665819306	88B016E70B03	The Electoral College shouldn't stay the same, in fact we shouldn't even have it anymor	Position	Adequate
86c023685cf1	88B016E70B03	the reasons why we should not keep the Electoral College is because we are voting for electors	Claim	Adequate
a22182765e1b	88B016E70B03	the tie that occurs in a election	Claim	Adequate
735613b2a286	88B016E70B03	representatives in states	Claim	Adequate
27fed59bf408	88B016E70B03	There is so many problems with our constitution and the Electoral College is one of them.	Claim	Adequate
1bfcf47765dc	88B016E70B03	in which all the electors in that state gives the president their vote if the majority of the population voted for them. Wouldn't it just be easier if can automatically add up all votes for each president since we are so technologically advanced? I say we just let the people of the United States vote the way we should vote and everything would be easier and there would be less complaints	Evidence	Adequate
d2646581d795	88B016E70B03	The House of Representatives is now responsible for the election	Evidence	Adequate
f5eebd21dc19	88B016E70B03	The winner-takes-all is also a big problem.	Claim	Effective
466399f63cf7	88B016E70B03	The eclection is basically in the "Swing" states because the election is so close. So i guess the smaller the better. "The Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irrational." Says Bradford Plumer in the article "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong."	Evidence	Adequate
2b8777b78387	88B016E70B03	"Wyoming, representating 500,000 voters, would have as much asthe 55 representatives from California, who represents 37 million," Says Bradford Plumer in paragraph 12. That makes no sense at all. Why would a smaller state with a smaller population have more votes than a bigger state with a larger population? That is unfair to the citizens of the United States and is unfair in the election	Evidence	Ineffective
1ebfafa34629	88B016E70B03	My arguement for this voting process could continue on. Agree or disagree, you still know that there are tons of problems wrong with the Electoral College. I hope one day it'll change and less talk and arguements will occur, it's time for a new voting process.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
6bd2608af118	88BEB108EA83	I think that we should get rid of the eletoral collage and switch to a popular vote system	Position	Adequate
d41d095bcf6b	88BEB108EA83	with the popular vote we can get the president we want if more people vote for the same one.	Claim	Adequate
9f609292c3c5	88BEB108EA83	Its fair if you vote for one preisdent but lose the election because more people voted for the other president, but its not fair if more people vote for the same president and still lose due to the eletoral collage	Evidence	Adequate
ef064f9d27fe	88BEB108EA83	Now the eletoral collage is good for keeping track of votes but now most of the voting nowadays most of the voting is done off an eletronic device of some sort.	Evidence	Ineffective
55fb8577402c	88BEB108EA83	Its not fair that almost all of the states' eletoral collages are winner-take-all. so its like turning the votes around and voting for the other person when you didn't.	Claim	Adequate
0a3e4f502270	88BEB108EA83	Thank you for taking the time to read this and I hope to see the rules changing real soon.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
7ca99210d564	88E81B040A5A	Why does electoral college still have its defenders, Abolish the electoral college!... Electoral College was a compromise between election of the president by a vote in congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens.	Lead	Effective
a2b77de8bd5b	88E81B040A5A	I am writing to the state senator of florida to argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College.	Position	Effective
57c6b47f919f	88E81B040A5A	The Electoral College is a way of certainty of outcome.	Claim	Effective
9aaaee669f9d	88E81B040A5A	Swing states	Claim	Effective
3ed729e7d00a	88E81B040A5A	Aviod run-off elections.	Claim	Effective
339bf3f554c0	88E81B040A5A	This has happened before in 2000. In 2012 election, for Obama he received 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him and Romney, the Republican nominee for president in 2012. electoral votes arenon a winner-takes-all basis. A tie in the nationwide electora vote is possible because the total number of votes 538 is an even number.	Evidence	Ineffective
a772cfad03a3	88E81B040A5A	The winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates. Voters in toss-up states are more likely to pay close attention to the campaign to really listen to the competing candidates knowing that they are going to decide the election. The most thoughtful voters should be the ones to decide the election.	Evidence	Effective
16e3ffdd4c18	88E81B040A5A	The Electoral College also aviods the problem of election in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast. Nixon in 1968 and Clinton in 1992 are good examples, they both only a had 43 percent plurality of the popular votes. Some potential voters who have no hope have less in centive to pay attention to the campaign than they would have if the president were picked by popular votes.	Evidence	Effective
bd5e275e5c01	88E81B040A5A	To briefly wrap up I argue in favor for the Electoral Votes to stay because of the certainty of outcome, swing states, and lastly to aviod run-off elections. In some people's opinion's they would disagree, but they will not have enough facts to support why they disagree, because honestly Electoral Votes is always the way to go.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
034147016ead	88FC05DDCC92	I realize some people may think that community service is a waste of time, a distraction from work or friends and family	Counterclaim	Effective
68c00f91cf5d	88FC05DDCC92	but I can assure you that community service is greatly needed. It doesn't matter that it may take time away from work or other jobs, we all need to give back now and then. We ,as a community, cant have a "well-someone-else-should-do-it" attitude, because if we all thought that then nothing would ever get done	Rebuttal	Effective
5d8e6ac9e0d0	88FC05DDCC92	In these times, when some people are working two jobs just to feed their family, and we have so much extra, it would be selfish and greedy of us not to give back.	Position	Effective
673dbc6b5427	88FC05DDCC92	Community service doesn't have to be boring either, there are lots of fun ways to give back to our community.	Claim	Adequate
bec26b5da12f	88FC05DDCC92	For example, you could go to a animal shelter and help walk and feed the animals. Or you could go to a nursing home and play games with the seniors there. I'm sure they would also love to have someone sit and just listen to them tell a story or two. There are lots of fun ways to help out that don't include getting dirty or being outside.	Evidence	Effective
c26fc7933473	88FC05DDCC92	But if someone felt like they wanted to do more laborious work then there are other jobs they can do as well.	Claim	Adequate
2686406a67a7	88FC05DDCC92	They could help clean up garbage at a beach. They could help redo a local park by putting in bark dust or planting trees. Also, they could find a nice local garden or farm that had some jobs that needed to be done. There could be non-profit organizations that need some volunteers with events or charities as well.	Evidence	Effective
e8664094a468	88FC05DDCC92	think that if you didn't have the students at our school do community service you would be doing them a great injustice. When we are so privileged to have a nice home, clean water, and a meal on the table every night we should at least be able to go out for an our or two and help someone else who isn't as privileged. Its hardly a great burden to get up from the computer or desk you are at, put on a pair of old jeans and a t-shirt, and go out and help. So I ask only one thing of you; please set aside one day, one measly day, to have all of the students in our school wander out into the community and help someone.	Concluding Statement	Effective
df70910ccbff	89039D21E960	Though I have not been alive to see most of it, I am sure that the debate on keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote has been going on for ages. Now, the words of a fourteen year old might not mean much to a state senator, especially since it will be four years until I am legally allowed to vote, but please sir, hear me out	Lead	Effective
344835cf6280	89039D21E960	I believe that we should keep the Electoral College for many reasons.	Position	Adequate
11bf9c7642e4	89039D21E960	One, if the president was decided by popular vote, our president might not be the best one for the country.	Claim	Effective
4fdbe55ba672	89039D21E960	Secondly, if it were up to a popular vote, the president might win, or not win, simply for being a regional favorite.	Claim	Effective
fcb8df5d7072	89039D21E960	As stated in the third article, paragraph 20, "The winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates... to focus their campaign effors on the toss-up states." As you know, toss-up state's make the final vote. Therefore, people in these states are more likely to pay close attention to the campaign, and they will be the ones with the most information. If it were up to popular vote, then anyone over the age of 18 could randomly pick a winner. Let's be honest, the majority of eighteen year old's will vote on whoever their friends or family vote for, or even the candidate representing their group (Democratic or Republic). Many people, if the president was decided by popular vote, would make an uneducated decision on one of the canidates, not studying their choices as much as one would with the Electoral College system in place.	Evidence	Effective
39dff5352d47	89039D21E960	As stated in the third article, paragraph 19, "...because a candidate with only regional appeal is unlikely to be a successful president." Also in the paragraph, it states that no region has enough electoral votes to elect a president. If the president was decided by popular vote, however, can you imagine what it would be like? Take Romney, for example. He was a solid regional favorite in the South. Romney knew that there was no incentive to campaign heavily in the South, because he would not gain any electoral votes by increasing his plurilaty in states he knew he would win. If popularity decided the president, residents of the other regions might feel like their vote would not count, and that the president would have no regard for their interests. Say that popularity did actually determine a winner. While most regions might vote for a certain presidents, the ones that did not would feel like that the man running the country wasnt really "their president". However, Mr. Senator, if the Electoral College was to stay, this problem would never exist. With the system we have now, the people vote for your state's electors when they vote for the president. Most states also have a "winner-take-all" system. Therefore, the canidate with the most votes in a state win's that state's electors. This lets the voting be even, fair. A popular vote would make the voting unfair to those who did not want that president.	Evidence	Effective
3785f4f04f7d	89039D21E960	Now, of course, the other view has to be adressed. As stated in the second article, "Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning... During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all." This quote shows that the canidates might not go to a state they know they have no chance in winning.	Counterclaim	Effective
004d9e78444a	89039D21E960	I can see how this could support changing to election by popular vote, and how it could be reasonable. If our president was chosen by popular vote, then he would visit all of the states, trying to win them over. However, there are some strong arguments against this. To begin with, one man would have to visit 50 states, and even if he only visited the majority, there is still a posibility that the state will not vote for him anyways, in the end. If we keep the Electoral College, then the majority of votes in a state would count, not his popularity. As a fourteen year old, I can relate this to highschool. A student can be the most popular student in the school, but they can also be the most rude and mean. And while another student may not be popular, they can be the nicest in the school. If the president was chosen by a popular vote, he might just end up being the worst thing that could happen to the country.	Rebuttal	Effective
44c46b602a4d	89039D21E960	In conclusion, Mr. State Senator, I think that keeping the Electoral College is the best thing for our country. If we changed to election by popular vote, the man (or woman) might not be the best for our country, and the best man might not win because he is not a regional favorite. I hope, sir, that you will take my letter into account when you go to vote on this topic.	Concluding Statement	Effective
fd0239648e58	89163FC7FAE8	The Electoral College is a fundamental way of electeing the us persident. It's been in the us for over 200+ years so why change it now.	Lead	Adequate
fb9a02a77bbc	89163FC7FAE8	It work for the founding fathers George Wsahington, Thomas Jefferson, And Benjamin Franklin. Like they old Quote "if it ani't broke don't fix it."	Position	Ineffective
7b3666b7776e	89163FC7FAE8	Some of the reasons people want to elminate the Electoral College is because the way it works.	Counterclaim	Adequate
5b7e1a787994	89163FC7FAE8	For example if you live in texas and want to vote for a John Kerry you'd actualy vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electors pledged to kerry. Who knows if they win the statewide election and go to congress with kerry. And what if "this so called electors" don't even have or hold an public office, who are they in the first place and how do they get picked. Many people congressional men and women want the Eletoral college gone because of the close calls it's had to make and some think those pick favored or didn't favor the country.	Evidence	Adequate
8159ab6bd739	89163FC7FAE8	Like the 2000 fiasco which was one of the biggest election crisis of the century.	Counterclaim	Adequate
7c9a6e9683ad	89163FC7FAE8	And not to mention the 1960 of John F Kennedy which many segregationists replaced democratic electors with new ones who would oppose Kennedy. And yet same even oppose their own party's candidate for some they choose. Some states even send two slates with in them it happened in Hawaii in the same election. Thankfully Vice Persident Richard Nixion only validated only his opponent's electors, made sure to do so without giving up a percent.	Evidence	Adequate
374090005009	89163FC7FAE8	But still people say a state like California whos population is apromximently 35 million people and 2 senates get to have the say over them that's what may make it difficult. Rhode island aswell because they only have a minimal population so they are not off so bad like others. And what about the now large amount of illeagal emmagints whom can't get a vote because of citizenship. They need it to vote and the ones who can offten don't know who they're voting for	Evidence	Adequate
ad2d4b7925a1	89163FC7FAE8	At most basic level it seems unfair because of the winner-take-all system.	Counterclaim	Adequate
34f828d75f90	89163FC7FAE8	I say keep it because if the Electoral College vote ties then then the US House of Rep. and the Senate choose the winners. The House The Persident and the Senate the Vice Persident. You are the one who choose those who govern you not them so therefore choose whom you want and give them the benefit of the doubt.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
87633b9d011b	896F322AE281	I think Policy 1 is better, because then you can bring your brand-new phone you got from a celebration or for a reward.	Position	Adequate
87bea395a8ed	896F322AE281	Policy 2 says cell phones are not allowed , then what is the reason to have a phone if your not allowed to have it.	Claim	Adequate
fd6ec33f4632	896F322AE281	Lets say your parent/parents are being held up and can't pick you up from school, so then somebody else has to pick you up or take the bus home. You play for the school's baseball team and a last minute game was scheduled and you have to play today in 30 minutes, but your parent/parents doesn't know so how are going to get a ride home. You have to get your or borrow somebody else phone to call him/her.	Evidence	Adequate
154306f9f31e	896F322AE281	There is a bomb threat and the terr says if the police comes the school will blow up, so you have to secretly call the police tell them what the person said and the information he/she is giving while the teacher is asking questions. The police finds out who the person is and tracks the call and arrest the terrorist.	Evidence	Adequate
ab84412af4e6	896F322AE281	There is a fire and somebody was hurt, so you or somebody has to call the 9-1-1 to put the fire and see if the victim was seriously hurt. there was an earthquake and somebody broke their leg and you are trapped with the victim, so you have to call 9-1-1.	Evidence	Adequate
16d94306586b	896F322AE281	That is why you should use Policy 1.	Concluding Statement	Ineffective
6ad5fd6169f4	89AB334EE7ED	I'm writing this letter to inform you on my thoughts and positions on requiring students to perform community service	Lead	Adequate
e0a996fb4dff	89AB334EE7ED	I would first like start by saying that community service is a great thing. without a good community and those who help we have no community. I agree that students should be required to perform community service.	Position	Effective
466a3684acbc	89AB334EE7ED	Community service teaches the youth of the importance of having a strong community.	Claim	Adequate
efbaca52fbe0	89AB334EE7ED	It also teaches how to take care of our community when we grow up.	Claim	Adequate
b37876c1168f	89AB334EE7ED	Another strong point is to give back.	Claim	Ineffective
8b157dc13f84	89AB334EE7ED	As kids we get everything we want without giving back. Lets show the adults how well rounded are communities youth is. By doing things as simple as community car pooling or just picking up garbage we decrease our pollution in the air which would make this a safer place to live. students such as myself should be assumed to help the community out, also we shouldn't be rewarded with material things for helping our community. Reading to kindergartner's should warm anybodies heart. Knowing that we made some sort of a difference in our community is reward enough.	Evidence	Adequate
cee5df43de8a	89AB334EE7ED	Principal I think I've made my point clear. Are youth should have to perform community service. It wouldn't take away all our free time and it would help our community in so many ways.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
c8b64938efc1	89C55AA2CA12	How many kids do community service in your school? A lot of kids in my school do community service at school.	Lead	Ineffective
e9b9068159da	89C55AA2CA12	Also, most kids participate in sporting events outside of school.	Claim	Adequate
56fcc35a5a70	89C55AA2CA12	Finally, kids should only be forced to do community service if they do something bad.	Claim	Adequate
761dff8a6380	89C55AA2CA12	Community service shouldn't be required for students.	Position	Adequate
4f40ca12f04e	89C55AA2CA12	Like everyone says "practice makes perfect" and if the kids doing sports don't practice they will get worse at the sport and wont ever exceed. The coach might not have many players and if half of his kids are doing community service he will have to forfeit the game. There is one reason why students shouldn't have to do community service.	Evidence	Adequate
37f1a0e9b235	89C55AA2CA12	Every kid does community service every day without even knowing that they are doing it.	Claim	Adequate
f7483a5b17a6	89C55AA2CA12	if they play sports, they are doing community service. Also if they help someone out they are doing community service. Finally the students are doing community service just by showing up to school. That is just one more reason why the students shouldn't have to do community service.	Evidence	Adequate
bdcfd6f80c6d	89C55AA2CA12	Like i said before, students do community service all the time without even knowing they are doing it. Most of the kids that do bad stuff just laugh at the punishments the school gives now. So if they were doing community service it would waste there time and if one of there friends saw them they would be embarrassed. There is the third reason why students shouldn't have to do community service.	Evidence	Adequate
d44aa60ffa78	89C55AA2CA12	Community service shouldn't be required for students. Only the bad kids should have to do community service. Every kid does community service without knowing they are. A lot of kids play sports and would have to miss them to do the community service. That is why students shouldn't have to do community service.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
599108dcfd80	89CE2C3E8E32	Growing up most all of us have watched cartoons with self driving cars or movies with the idea of a car that can drive itself. But can you imagine if that idea could soon become real? Google and many other companys have been trying at this idea for years and have been very succseful with the expirement. The idea of a self driving car has snagged the attention of many people and especially Google who have acaully made this come true in 2009 when they made the first self driving car. These cars a have drove all over without a single acident reported.	Lead	Adequate
ff8a8e53db46	89CE2C3E8E32	So as you can imagine this sparks the question, Are self driving car safer on the roads then normals car? Well self driving car all based on sensors that detect anything and everything in the road.	Claim	Adequate

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The winner take all method of awarding electoral votes induces the canidates as we saw in 2012's election

Claim

Ineffective

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881F756EF94A

voters in toss-up states are most likely to pay close attention to the campaign. they are likely to be the most thoughtful voters, average and the most thoughtful voters hsould be the ones to dcide the election.

Evidence

Adequate

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8842FE99EC98

The electoral college method is a process that consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for the President and the Vice president, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress. This means that that people are not directly voting for who they want to be president but voting for an elector that then places a vote. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a comprimise between election of the president by a vote in Congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors, and a majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. But the other process of voting for a president is what we have now, it is called the popular vote, in which people go to a place where there are machines that you can place your vote for the president you want elected, the person with the most votes becomes the president of the United States and the person that lost the popular vote is elected vice president.

Evidence

Ineffective

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8842FE99EC98

You may ask, well what is wrong with the Electoral College system? Well under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president

Claim

Adequate

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Some people are very serious about their choice of the president they take their time to learn what the president could do for them and their state and country. So when that much time is put in to making that vote people would get mad if a person with an entirely different idea just takes their vote and places it wherever they want.

Evidence

Adequate

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8842FE99EC98

The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic mothod of selcting a president that should be overruled by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner.

Concluding Statement

Adequate

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Since the electoral college is so old I think it is time to ebolish it!

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I think students shouldn't have to perform community service

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because students sometimes have issues at home were they cant stay after school for activities

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One reason they might not be able to do community service is because they might have a love one that is sick at home and they have to be there for there aid. Second reason is because a student might have financial problems at home were they may have to take on a part time job after school to help around the household with payments. The final reason is that student there self may have health issues forbidding them from doing any community service. Those are the reasons why a student may not be able to do community work after school because of personal issues.

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Also students shouldn't have to perform community service because they might have other activities, clubs, groups or sport related things happening after school.

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One reason is they might be too busy after school everyday to do anything else on the side such as being on a sports team for the town or at school. Second reason is because they might be in a church group that meets everyday to sing or study. The final reason is because a student may just be busy doing regular things like watching a relative after school while their parent or guardian is at work.

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Now even though my opinion is no doesn't mean community service shouldn't be done it just shouldn't be forced on students to do.

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In 1976 a mars global surveyor image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. Twenty five years ago a "human face" was photographed on Mars. NASA'S Viking 1 spacecraft was trying to photograph possible landing area for the Viking 1 spacecraft's siter, Viking 2. When they were capturing photos they came across a face. Now you're saying that it was created by aliens.

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If it was formed by aliens, Where did the aliens go?

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Where did they come from? How do you know for sure that aliens exist there has been no sightings of "Aliens". Nothing can live on Mars. If so why are they not still there.

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It was a Martian mesa, common enough around Cyndonia,

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it only had ONE unusual shadow. No more than one unusual form. We had researchers, we also had all the right rescources to figure it was only a Martian mesa. Where is your evidence that it was aliens.

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It was just a landform that was formed on Mars.

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They only sent it out to attract attention to NASA. When it did it got way to out of control.

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The article also said that "the camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds"

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If a high tech camera can't see through clouds then how could "Aliens" see through it.

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The landform was equivalent of a butte or mesa, those are landforms common around the American West. If it wan't a common landform then maybe I would believe you.

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It was not "aliens" sorry to dissapoint you. If you could please have more research next time, that would be great. Evidence is apart of what we do here at NASA.

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The Electoral College shouldn't stay the same, in fact we shouldn't even have it anymor

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the reasons why we should not keep the Electoral College is because we are voting for electors

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the tie that occurs in a election

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representatives in states

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There is so many problems with our constitution and the Electoral College is one of them.

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in which all the electors in that state gives the president their vote if the majority of the population voted for them. Wouldn't it just be easier if can automatically add up all votes for each president since we are so technologically advanced? I say we just let the people of the United States vote the way we should vote and everything would be easier and there would be less complaints

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The House of Representatives is now responsible for the election

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The winner-takes-all is also a big problem.

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The eclection is basically in the "Swing" states because the election is so close. So i guess the smaller the better. "The Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irrational." Says Bradford Plumer in the article "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong."

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"Wyoming, representating 500,000 voters, would have as much asthe 55 representatives from California, who represents 37 million," Says Bradford Plumer in paragraph 12. That makes no sense at all. Why would a smaller state with a smaller population have more votes than a bigger state with a larger population? That is unfair to the citizens of the United States and is unfair in the election

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My arguement for this voting process could continue on. Agree or disagree, you still know that there are tons of problems wrong with the Electoral College. I hope one day it'll change and less talk and arguements will occur, it's time for a new voting process.

Concluding Statement

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I think that we should get rid of the eletoral collage and switch to a popular vote system

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with the popular vote we can get the president we want if more people vote for the same one.

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Its fair if you vote for one preisdent but lose the election because more people voted for the other president, but its not fair if more people vote for the same president and still lose due to the eletoral collage

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Now the eletoral collage is good for keeping track of votes but now most of the voting nowadays most of the voting is done off an eletronic device of some sort.

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Its not fair that almost all of the states' eletoral collages are winner-take-all. so its like turning the votes around and voting for the other person when you didn't.

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Thank you for taking the time to read this and I hope to see the rules changing real soon.

Concluding Statement

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Why does electoral college still have its defenders, Abolish the electoral college!... Electoral College was a compromise between election of the president by a vote in congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens.

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I am writing to the state senator of florida to argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College.

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The Electoral College is a way of certainty of outcome.

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Swing states

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Aviod run-off elections.

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This has happened before in 2000. In 2012 election, for Obama he received 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him and Romney, the Republican nominee for president in 2012. electoral votes arenon a winner-takes-all basis. A tie in the nationwide electora vote is possible because the total number of votes 538 is an even number.

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The winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates. Voters in toss-up states are more likely to pay close attention to the campaign to really listen to the competing candidates knowing that they are going to decide the election. The most thoughtful voters should be the ones to decide the election.

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The Electoral College also aviods the problem of election in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast. Nixon in 1968 and Clinton in 1992 are good examples, they both only a had 43 percent plurality of the popular votes. Some potential voters who have no hope have less in centive to pay attention to the campaign than they would have if the president were picked by popular votes.

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To briefly wrap up I argue in favor for the Electoral Votes to stay because of the certainty of outcome, swing states, and lastly to aviod run-off elections. In some people's opinion's they would disagree, but they will not have enough facts to support why they disagree, because honestly Electoral Votes is always the way to go.

Concluding Statement

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I realize some people may think that community service is a waste of time, a distraction from work or friends and family

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but I can assure you that community service is greatly needed. It doesn't matter that it may take time away from work or other jobs, we all need to give back now and then. We ,as a community, cant have a "well-someone-else-should-do-it" attitude, because if we all thought that then nothing would ever get done

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In these times, when some people are working two jobs just to feed their family, and we have so much extra, it would be selfish and greedy of us not to give back.

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Community service doesn't have to be boring either, there are lots of fun ways to give back to our community.

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For example, you could go to a animal shelter and help walk and feed the animals. Or you could go to a nursing home and play games with the seniors there. I'm sure they would also love to have someone sit and just listen to them tell a story or two. There are lots of fun ways to help out that don't include getting dirty or being outside.

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But if someone felt like they wanted to do more laborious work then there are other jobs they can do as well.

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They could help clean up garbage at a beach. They could help redo a local park by putting in bark dust or planting trees. Also, they could find a nice local garden or farm that had some jobs that needed to be done. There could be non-profit organizations that need some volunteers with events or charities as well.

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think that if you didn't have the students at our school do community service you would be doing them a great injustice. When we are so privileged to have a nice home, clean water, and a meal on the table every night we should at least be able to go out for an our or two and help someone else who isn't as privileged. Its hardly a great burden to get up from the computer or desk you are at, put on a pair of old jeans and a t-shirt, and go out and help. So I ask only one thing of you; please set aside one day, one measly day, to have all of the students in our school wander out into the community and help someone.

Concluding Statement

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Though I have not been alive to see most of it, I am sure that the debate on keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote has been going on for ages. Now, the words of a fourteen year old might not mean much to a state senator, especially since it will be four years until I am legally allowed to vote, but please sir, hear me out

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I believe that we should keep the Electoral College for many reasons.

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One, if the president was decided by popular vote, our president might not be the best one for the country.

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Secondly, if it were up to a popular vote, the president might win, or not win, simply for being a regional favorite.

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As stated in the third article, paragraph 20, "The winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates... to focus their campaign effors on the toss-up states." As you know, toss-up state's make the final vote. Therefore, people in these states are more likely to pay close attention to the campaign, and they will be the ones with the most information. If it were up to popular vote, then anyone over the age of 18 could randomly pick a winner. Let's be honest, the majority of eighteen year old's will vote on whoever their friends or family vote for, or even the candidate representing their group (Democratic or Republic). Many people, if the president was decided by popular vote, would make an uneducated decision on one of the canidates, not studying their choices as much as one would with the Electoral College system in place.

Evidence

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As stated in the third article, paragraph 19, "...because a candidate with only regional appeal is unlikely to be a successful president." Also in the paragraph, it states that no region has enough electoral votes to elect a president. If the president was decided by popular vote, however, can you imagine what it would be like? Take Romney, for example. He was a solid regional favorite in the South. Romney knew that there was no incentive to campaign heavily in the South, because he would not gain any electoral votes by increasing his plurilaty in states he knew he would win. If popularity decided the president, residents of the other regions might feel like their vote would not count, and that the president would have no regard for their interests. Say that popularity did actually determine a winner. While most regions might vote for a certain presidents, the ones that did not would feel like that the man running the country wasnt really "their president". However, Mr. Senator, if the Electoral College was to stay, this problem would never exist. With the system we have now, the people vote for your state's electors when they vote for the president. Most states also have a "winner-take-all" system. Therefore, the canidate with the most votes in a state win's that state's electors. This lets the voting be even, fair. A popular vote would make the voting unfair to those who did not want that president.

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Now, of course, the other view has to be adressed. As stated in the second article, "Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning... During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all." This quote shows that the canidates might not go to a state they know they have no chance in winning.

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I can see how this could support changing to election by popular vote, and how it could be reasonable. If our president was chosen by popular vote, then he would visit all of the states, trying to win them over. However, there are some strong arguments against this. To begin with, one man would have to visit 50 states, and even if he only visited the majority, there is still a posibility that the state will not vote for him anyways, in the end. If we keep the Electoral College, then the majority of votes in a state would count, not his popularity. As a fourteen year old, I can relate this to highschool. A student can be the most popular student in the school, but they can also be the most rude and mean. And while another student may not be popular, they can be the nicest in the school. If the president was chosen by a popular vote, he might just end up being the worst thing that could happen to the country.

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In conclusion, Mr. State Senator, I think that keeping the Electoral College is the best thing for our country. If we changed to election by popular vote, the man (or woman) might not be the best for our country, and the best man might not win because he is not a regional favorite. I hope, sir, that you will take my letter into account when you go to vote on this topic.

Concluding Statement

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The Electoral College is a fundamental way of electeing the us persident. It's been in the us for over 200+ years so why change it now.

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It work for the founding fathers George Wsahington, Thomas Jefferson, And Benjamin Franklin. Like they old Quote "if it ani't broke don't fix it."

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Some of the reasons people want to elminate the Electoral College is because the way it works.

Counterclaim

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For example if you live in texas and want to vote for a John Kerry you'd actualy vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electors pledged to kerry. Who knows if they win the statewide election and go to congress with kerry. And what if "this so called electors" don't even have or hold an public office, who are they in the first place and how do they get picked. Many people congressional men and women want the Eletoral college gone because of the close calls it's had to make and some think those pick favored or didn't favor the country.

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Like the 2000 fiasco which was one of the biggest election crisis of the century.

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And not to mention the 1960 of John F Kennedy which many segregationists replaced democratic electors with new ones who would oppose Kennedy. And yet same even oppose their own party's candidate for some they choose. Some states even send two slates with in them it happened in Hawaii in the same election. Thankfully Vice Persident Richard Nixion only validated only his opponent's electors, made sure to do so without giving up a percent.

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But still people say a state like California whos population is apromximently 35 million people and 2 senates get to have the say over them that's what may make it difficult. Rhode island aswell because they only have a minimal population so they are not off so bad like others. And what about the now large amount of illeagal emmagints whom can't get a vote because of citizenship. They need it to vote and the ones who can offten don't know who they're voting for

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At most basic level it seems unfair because of the winner-take-all system.

Counterclaim

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I say keep it because if the Electoral College vote ties then then the US House of Rep. and the Senate choose the winners. The House The Persident and the Senate the Vice Persident. You are the one who choose those who govern you not them so therefore choose whom you want and give them the benefit of the doubt.

Concluding Statement

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I think Policy 1 is better, because then you can bring your brand-new phone you got from a celebration or for a reward.

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Policy 2 says cell phones are not allowed , then what is the reason to have a phone if your not allowed to have it.

Claim

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Lets say your parent/parents are being held up and can't pick you up from school, so then somebody else has to pick you up or take the bus home. You play for the school's baseball team and a last minute game was scheduled and you have to play today in 30 minutes, but your parent/parents doesn't know so how are going to get a ride home. You have to get your or borrow somebody else phone to call him/her.

Evidence

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There is a bomb threat and the terr says if the police comes the school will blow up, so you have to secretly call the police tell them what the person said and the information he/she is giving while the teacher is asking questions. The police finds out who the person is and tracks the call and arrest the terrorist.

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There is a fire and somebody was hurt, so you or somebody has to call the 9-1-1 to put the fire and see if the victim was seriously hurt. there was an earthquake and somebody broke their leg and you are trapped with the victim, so you have to call 9-1-1.

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That is why you should use Policy 1.

Concluding Statement

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I'm writing this letter to inform you on my thoughts and positions on requiring students to perform community service

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I would first like start by saying that community service is a great thing. without a good community and those who help we have no community. I agree that students should be required to perform community service.

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Community service teaches the youth of the importance of having a strong community.

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It also teaches how to take care of our community when we grow up.

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Another strong point is to give back.

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As kids we get everything we want without giving back. Lets show the adults how well rounded are communities youth is. By doing things as simple as community car pooling or just picking up garbage we decrease our pollution in the air which would make this a safer place to live. students such as myself should be assumed to help the community out, also we shouldn't be rewarded with material things for helping our community. Reading to kindergartner's should warm anybodies heart. Knowing that we made some sort of a difference in our community is reward enough.

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Principal I think I've made my point clear. Are youth should have to perform community service. It wouldn't take away all our free time and it would help our community in so many ways.

Concluding Statement

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How many kids do community service in your school? A lot of kids in my school do community service at school.

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Also, most kids participate in sporting events outside of school.

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Finally, kids should only be forced to do community service if they do something bad.

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Community service shouldn't be required for students.

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Like everyone says "practice makes perfect" and if the kids doing sports don't practice they will get worse at the sport and wont ever exceed. The coach might not have many players and if half of his kids are doing community service he will have to forfeit the game. There is one reason why students shouldn't have to do community service.

Evidence

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Every kid does community service every day without even knowing that they are doing it.

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if they play sports, they are doing community service. Also if they help someone out they are doing community service. Finally the students are doing community service just by showing up to school. That is just one more reason why the students shouldn't have to do community service.

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Like i said before, students do community service all the time without even knowing they are doing it. Most of the kids that do bad stuff just laugh at the punishments the school gives now. So if they were doing community service it would waste there time and if one of there friends saw them they would be embarrassed. There is the third reason why students shouldn't have to do community service.

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Community service shouldn't be required for students. Only the bad kids should have to do community service. Every kid does community service without knowing they are. A lot of kids play sports and would have to miss them to do the community service. That is why students shouldn't have to do community service.

Concluding Statement

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Growing up most all of us have watched cartoons with self driving cars or movies with the idea of a car that can drive itself. But can you imagine if that idea could soon become real? Google and many other companys have been trying at this idea for years and have been very succseful with the expirement. The idea of a self driving car has snagged the attention of many people and especially Google who have acaully made this come true in 2009 when they made the first self driving car. These cars a have drove all over without a single acident reported.

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So as you can imagine this sparks the question, Are self driving car safer on the roads then normals car? Well self driving car all based on sensors that detect anything and everything in the road.

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