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Why Do We Still Have The Electoral College? | Throughline | NPR

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Published January 12, 2024 at 4:00 AM CST

What is it, why do we have it, and why hasn't it changed? Born from a rushed, fraught, imperfect process, the origins and evolution of the Electoral College might surprise you and make you think differently about not only this upcoming presidential election, but our democracy as a whole.

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