It was a remarkable transformation for a country that had allowed, at its birth, only a fraction of the population to vote. And yet 130 years is a long time to deliver on a nation’s founding premise. One reason it took so long can be found in the design of the Electoral College itself. Because each state gets its prescribed number of electors based on total population, not on how many of its residents cast a ballot, there is no incentive to expand the electorate. Why bother letting more people vote when it doesn’t give your state any additional influence? Imagine how much sooner America might
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