| Electoral Bait and Switch: How the Electoral College Hurts American Voters and What Can Be Done about It Contributor(s): Petrocelli, Bill (Author), Senator Barbara Boxer (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1633886581 ISBN-13: 9781633886582 Publisher: Prometheus Books OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | American Government - National - Law | Election Law - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Democracy |
| Dewey: 324.63 |
| LCCN: 2020009529 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.45 lbs) 120 pages |
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| Publisher Description: It's a system that now fosters massive inequality in voting rights and opens the door to manipulation of presidential elections by foreign and domestic enemies of democracy. Electoral Bait & Switch is prescriptive, and accessible to the general reader. The current Electoral-Vote system presents a severe and growing threat to democracy in the United States. It has thwarted the will of a majority of the voters twice in the last five presidential elections (2000 and 2016) by elevating to office a candidate who received only a minority of the vote. This system is a distortion of the system envisioned by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and the other framers of the Constitution. If it is not challenged and overturned, we are likely to face a continual series of electoral and constitutional crises. The constitutional right of Americans to an equal vote in presidential elections is being violated by this system on a massive scale. The value of an individual vote varies as much as three-to-one from state to state, and there are no two states where voters have the same voting-power. The current Elector system discriminates heavily against minority and poorer voters. The winner-take-all method of allocating Electoral votes also results in large pockets of "useless votes" and a system in which where you vote counts for far more than how you vote. Most ominously, evidence is now clear that the Electoral-Vote system has opened the door for voter suppression and manipulation of elections by domestic and foreign conspirators. |