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Mathematically speaking, this system is built to virtually ensure narrow victories, making it very susceptible to efforts to change either voters’ minds or the records of their choices.

The GOP’s decade-long war on voting rights is making it harder to hold fair elections as COVID-19 spreads

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More than two centuries after it was designed to empower southern white voters, the system continues to do just that.

As has been true for over 200 years, the next president will be chosen by an eighteenth-century anachronism. American voters deserve better.

And while a majority of the country has expressed support for giving the presidency to the person who wins the most votes — 55 percent in the latest Pew Research Center poll — there are sharp partisan divides.

Theoretically, a bill or nomination could pass out of the Senate with the support of senators representing only 16.2 percent of the population.

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