Electoral College

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By Tuesday evening as many as 120 million Americans are expected to have cast their ballots — and that’s up significantly from 4 years ago. Back then, the lesson was that every vote counts, and every vote should be counted.

Here’s where the specter of the Electoral College remains. This time every vote counts a lot if you live where the race is close in Florida, or Pennsylvania, But less so if you live in safe states like California, or Texas. That’s because individual votes don’t select a president, the Electoral College does. Does it give Americans the democracy they deserve?

Guests:

John Mangels, reporter and election coordinator for the Cleveland Plain Dealer

Alexander Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School

Geneva Overholser, Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting at the Missouri School of Journalism

Judith Best, Political Science Professor at State University of New York at Cortland