LWVCC September Book Discussion

In this thoroughly researched and engaging call to arms, Supreme Court journalist and New York Times editorial board member Jesse Wegman makes a powerful case for abolishing the antiquated and anti-democratic Electoral College. He draws upon the history of the founding era, as well as information gleaned from campaign managers, field directors, and other officials from twenty-first-century Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns. To this day, millions of voters, and even members of Congress, misunderstand how the Electoral College works. It deepens our national divide and distorts the core democratic principles of political equality and majority rule. How can we tolerate the Electoral College when every vote does not count the same, and the candidate who gets the most votes can lose?  In Let the People Pick the President Wegman shows how we can at long last make every vote in the United States count—and restore belief in our democratic system. (Goodreads review)