In the News The Electoral College May Not Actually Help Smaller States
June 12, 2019
issues:
Energy and Environment
originally published in
Bloomberg
As Josiah Neeley, a Texas-based senior fellow at the R Street Institute, a conservative/libertarian Washington think tank, tweeted in March: 5
The Founding Fathers were suspicious of vulgar democracy. That’s why they designed a system where 95% of the time the candidate with the most votes wins, while in 5% of elections the 2nd highest vote getter randomly wins instead.
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