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‘Nobody really wanted the Electoral College’: America’s peculiar voting system

2024/6/10
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Constitutional law scholar Wilfred Codrington III talks with Rundown podcast host Erin Allen about slavery’s influence) on the creation of the electoral college – America’s state-elector-based system for electing presidents – and how that system affects democracy today.

This conversation is a part of the Democracy Solutions Project), a partnership among WBEZ, the Chicago Sun-Times and the University of Chicago’s Center for Effective Government.