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Why Do We Still Have The Electoral College? | Throughline | NPR
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as posted by the channelWhat 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.
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Episode 1The Electoral College
Episode 2How We Vote
Episode 3The Most Sacred Right
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