Let S Ditch The Electoral College For The Sake Of Minority Voters

    For anyone still hoping beyond hope that Donald Trump won’t be POTUS come January, few avenues remain.



    Axing the Electoral College could have another benefit too: it might help bring disenfranchised or disillusioned voters back into the fold.



    “The [Electoral College] is a reason I was turned off to politics in the first place,” he says. “The system is set up to be confusing, and it’s not representative of the American people.”



    “I don’t feel comfortable voting Green in presidential elections when we have an Electoral College,” Bradley-Smith says. “People tend not to vote for third parties because they know it could hurt their next potential choice. So I think [getting rid of the Electoral College] would be a good thing.”



    “In the campaign we just went through, two-thirds of it took place in six states, and 90 percent of TV ad spending took place in 12 states,” says Vermont state representative Chris Pearson, a National Popular Vote board member. “Our system as it stands routinely takes for granted people who live in at least 35 states.”