What Happened

by Hillary Rodham Clinton

Congress should repair the damage the Supreme Court did to the Voting Rights Act and restore the full protections that voters need and deserve, as well as the voting rights of Americans who have served time in prison and paid their debt to society. We need early voting and vote-by-mail in every state in America, and automatic, universal voter registration so every citizen who is eligible to vote is able to vote. As I wrote earlier, we need to overturn Citizens United and get secret money out of our politics. And it won’t surprise you to hear that I passionately believe it’s time to abolish the Electoral College. During the past five presidential elections, the person who won the popular vote lost the election twice. That’s flatly undemocratic. As I noted, the Electoral College gives disproportionate power to less populated states and makes a mockery of the principle of “one person, one vote.”