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The Electoral College, in its current form, is undemocratic, disenfranchises millions of Americans and discourages participation in government. A system that allows for a candidate to receive less than 25% of the popular vote and still become president of the United States has fatal flaws and has no place in a modern democracy. Although we have yet to see something so egregious, our refusal to modernize will only exacerbate the disparities where twice in the past 20 years the president was not chosen by a majority of the American people. Since the national popular vote was first recorded in 1824, there have been five presidential elections where the winner lost the popular vote, the most recent being Donald Trump, who lost by 2.8 million votes in 2016. This begs the question, why is the president elected by the Electoral College instead of through direct democracy, like all legislators and governors?

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