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Electoral College on ‘Life Support’

Mike Sacks, on the LegalEagle YouTube channel, provides a cogent history lesson on the origins of the Electoral College—which he calls “the most boneheaded procedural law in American history”—and examines the growing support for the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which, after this year’s midterms, may finally see enough states sign on to functionally eliminate the EC. A valuable primer if you’re unfamiliar with what Sacks also describes as “A law so half-baked and haphazardly thrown into the Constitution that it’s traumatized voters in every generation since the country's founding.”

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