Checkout this recent great article from the Brennan Center by John F. Kowal, Vice President for Programs at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. Kowal is “responsible for coordinating and guiding the organization’s programs on Democracy, Justice and Liberty and National Security”. Here is an excerpt from the recent BC post:
The election results, which brought us President Donald Trump and continued Republican control of Congress, were the product of a dysfunctional democratic system that screams out for repair. Consider the many ways our creaking, antiquated institutions of democracy distorted and subverted the will of the people in 2016.
Electoral College. Let’s start with the archaic, undemocratic Electoral College. In the stunned reaction to Tuesday’s election results, too little attention has been paid to the fact that Trump lost the national popular vote. It wasn’t even close. The slow trickle of results from California and Washington has obscured the final result: analysts project that Hillary Clinton is on track to top Trump’s total by as many as two million votes. So, for the second time in 16 years, the candidate chosen by a majority of the nation’s voters has lost the election. How can such a result be considered democratically legitimate in the 21st century?
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