Is the Electoral College broken? So argues Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig, a former presidential candidate and the founder of the non-profit group Equal Citizens. Lessig, along with people like former Mass. Governor Bill Weld, is leading a series of lawsuits to change it.
The Electoral College is a group of 538 people across the country who actually elect the president. When we vote for a president every four years, what we’re actually doing is voting for electors who go on to represent our interests at the national level and, ultimately, pick the next president. Almost every state operates on a “winner-take-all” system, which means that each of those states’ electors vote in single blocks — for the same person — even if as many as 49 percent of their state voted for another candidate.
Lessig joined Jim Braude to discuss his campaign.
