Why Do We Still Have The Electoral College Throughline NPR

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What is it, why do we have it, and why hasn't it changed? Born from a rushed, fraught, imperfect process, the origins and evolution of the Electoral College might surprise you and make you think differently about not only this upcoming presidential election, but our democracy as a whole. • NPR's Throughline podcast did a series of episodes on the history of our election system called (mis)Representative Democracy. • Listen to the episodes: • Episode 1: The Electoral College - https://www.npr.org/2020/09/30/918717... • Episode 2: How We Vote - https://www.npr.org/2020/10/02/919532... • Episode 3: The Most Sacred Right - https://www.npr.org/2020/10/02/919532... • Hear more Throughline podcast episodes: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510333/t... • • ------------------------------------------------------ • • FOLLOW NPR ELSEWHERE • / npr • / npr • / npr • https://www.npr.org/

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