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With the Electoral College voting today, I thought I’d share two critiques of the institution. First, a historical critique beginning with Paul Finkelman’s paper documenting ”The Proslavery Origins of the Electoral College.”
Second, supporters of the Electoral College often argue it helps legitimize the victor by converting narrow margins into commanding wins. In recent elections, though, the opposite is true. The Byzantine rules of the EC often delegitimatize the victor & destabilize our democracy.
The Electoral College turns the US into a semi-stochastic democracy. Essentially, the EC introduces a non-trivial amount of randomness into selecting the president. In theory, semi-random selection might ”thwart undue influence, bribery & abuse of power.” scholarworks.iupui.edu/bitstream/hand…
