I completely support the Electoral College system mainly because it works. Ironically, it was originally designed to solve a particular problem(s) and today it solves an entirely different set of problems.

Here's a great article with arguments for and against the Electoral College system:

http://www.uselectionatlas.org/INFOR...ege_procon.php

I'm quite against mandatory service. While it sounds good on the surface, our entire system of government is based on the premise that we are free to choose and direct our own lives...within legal bounds, of course.

What, exactly, will be accomplished by mandating civil service for everyone. It's another erosion of freedom that I, for one, will not endorse nor tolerate.