![]() ![]() Isn't it time to let the people pick the president? Now, with political passions at a boiling point, the message from the American people is clear: The way we vote for the only official whose job it is to represent all Americans is neither fair nor just. How can we tolerate the Electoral College when every vote does not count the same, and the candidate who gets the most votes can lose? ![]() It deepens our national divide and distorts the core democratic principles of political equality and majority rule. To this day, millions of voters, and even members of Congress, misunderstand how it works. Lawmakers have tried to amend or abolish it more than 700 times. The framers of the Constitution battled over it. Now in paperback: an ironclad argument for eliminating the Electoral College. But no one has laid out the case as comprehensively and as readably as Jesse Wegman." -Josh Chafetz, New York Times Book Review "People have been arguing against the Electoral College from the beginning. ![]()
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