‘Nobody really wanted the Electoral College’: America’s peculiar voting system
The Rundown | Chicago News · WBEZ Chicago
June 10, 202419m 48s
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Show Notes
Constitutional law scholar Wilfred Codrington III talks with Rundown podcast host Erin Allen about slavery’s influence on the creation of the electoral college – America’s state-elector-based system for electing presidents – and how that system affects democracy today.
This conversation is a part of the Democracy Solutions Project, a partnership among WBEZ, the Chicago Sun-Times and the University of Chicago’s Center for Effective Government.