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Why is US not a democracy?

Updated: 11/20/2022
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The US is not a democracy because, the president is not elected by the majority of public votes, but by electoral college votes.

There are cases when the candidate winning the majority of the polled votes was not declared elected, but the candidate who lost majority votes was.

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