Waubonsee Community College

Electoral bait and switch, how the Electoral College hurts American voters and what can be done about it, Bill Petrocelli

eng

Includes bibliographical references

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non fiction

Electoral bait and switch

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Bill Petrocelli

how the Electoral College hurts American voters and what can be done about it

"Electoral Bait and Switch is prescriptive and accessible to the general reader. If it is not challenged and overturned, we are likely to face a continual series of electoral and constitutional crises as the current Elector system discriminates heavily against minority and poorer voters. The winner-take-all method of allocating Electoral votes also results in large pockets of "useless votes" and a system in which where your vote counts for far more than how you vote. Most ominously, evidence is now clear that the Electoral-Vote system has opened the door for voter suppression and manipulation of elections by domestic and foreign conspirators"--, Provided by publisher

Machine generated contents note:, 1., Through the Eyes of the Voters, Election Night and Its Aftermath, The Myths That Prop up the Electoral College, References, 2., One Person, One Vote... Except Some Votes Count More than Others, An Equal Right to Vote? Not When All Voters Are Treated Differently, The Dismal World of Red States and Blue States, The Racist Underbelly of the Elector System, The Elector System Is an Election Hacker's Dream, References, 3., The Electoral College Is a Caricature of Its Former Self, The Original Idea, The Demise of the System, The Immediate Result Was Unequal Voting Rights, Electors Left in Limbo, The Elector System Has Frozen in Place a System of Unequal Voting Reference, 4., Presidential Power and Legitimacy, The Muddled Defenders, The Arc of History, References, 5., How to Change the System, Constitutional Amendment, The Interstate Compact, Challenges through the Courts, Action by Congress, People Power