People have been trying to answer that question for more than two centuries. Since the first proposed amendment to the Electoral College was introduced in Congress in 1797, there have been more than 700 attempts to reform or abolish it—more by far than for any other provision of the Constitution. Only one has succeeded: the Twelfth Amendment, which was ratified in 1804 to fix a technical flaw in the College’s design but left it otherwise intact.
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