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The Electoral College Coup Is Coming
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The Electoral College and the Politics of Democracy
The system as it was originally designed would rarely produce a majority winner, which in turn results in the House of Representatives holding a vote on who wins. This all changed as political parties coalesced and in the mid-1800s we got to a point where most states were holding statewide votes where the winner takes all of the electors. The number of electoral votes each state gets is the sum of its total number of representatives in the House and Senate. A popular vote would be the only system where everyone's vote matters equally.
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