🌎 North America 1d ago · Pema Levy and Ari Berman

America Finally Has the Votes to End the Electoral College

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Tuesday’s wave election swept Democrats into power in Congress. But the most seismic result for American politics and democracy may come out of the battleground states where Democrats just won trifecta control by taking both state houses and the governor’s mansion: Come January, Democratic legislators will have the votes to elect the next president by the popular vote.



State lawmakers could circumvent the Electoral College by enacting what’s known as the National Popular Vot

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