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The US’s Electoral College system is now functioning far from how its creators originally intended, Gustaf Kilander writes. In the most powerful democracy in the world, two of its last four ...
The Electoral College was officially selected as the means of electing president towards the end of the Constitutional Convention, due to pressure from slave states wanting to increase their voting power, since they could count slaves as 3/5 of a person when allocating electors, and by small states who increased their power given the minimum of ...
Electoral college undermines democracy, say critics, who call for its abolition to ensure voters’ voices are heard and their votes count. From our readers:
The Electoral College meeting occurs on the Tuesday after the second Wednesday in December, which is December 17 this year. Each state’s electors meet in their state and cast their votes. They ...
The closest the United States has come to abolishing the Electoral College occurred during the 91st Congress (1969–1971). [14] The presidential election of 1968 resulted in Richard Nixon receiving 301 electoral votes (56% of electors), Hubert Humphrey 191 (35.5%), and George Wallace 46 (8.5%) with 13.5% of the popular vote. However, Nixon had ...
Add it all up, and the Electoral College’s anti-democratic “wasted votes” problem discourages presidential voting in the many states with predetermined outcomes, where people know “my vote ...
An electoral college is a body whose task is to elect a candidate to a particular office. It is mostly used in the political context for a constitutional body that appoints the head of state or government , and sometimes the upper parliamentary chamber , in a democracy .
In 2016 and 2020 Donald Trump lost the popular election by several million votes. But in 2016 he won in the electoral college with slim majorities in several toss-up states.