Voting is absolutely critical for democracy. But at the end of the day, stopping a coup attempt will depend on far more than the ballot, and will require creative and courageous acts of civic and political engagement from all of us.
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Mathematically speaking, this system is built to virtually ensure narrow victories, making it very susceptible to efforts to change either voters’ minds or the records of their choices.
The U.S is ostensibly a democracy, yet past presidential elections, most recently in 2016, saw the loser of the popular vote elected. Two authors look at the convoluted Electoral College system, singular among advanced nations, and propose remedies.
The GOP’s decade-long war on voting rights is making it harder to hold fair elections as COVID-19 spreads
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More than two centuries after it was designed to empower southern white voters, the system continues to do just that.
As has been true for over 200 years, the next president will be chosen by an eighteenth-century anachronism. American voters deserve better.
And while a majority of the country has expressed support for giving the presidency to the person who wins the most votes — 55 percent in the latest Pew Research Center poll — there are sharp partisan divides.
Theoretically, a bill or nomination could pass out of the Senate with the support of senators representing only 16.2 percent of the population.
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