Vaporizing Your Vote? National Popular Vote v. Electoral College

Jul 29, 2010 by JILL MILLER ZIMON

If you aren’t old enough to remember Bush v. Gore (serious trivia: for those who’ve followed California’s Prop 8, check out the attorneys in Bush v. Gore and who they represented), don’t worry. The debate it highlighted — should our president be selected by popular vote or the electoral college system — lives on in the efforts of many states, catalogued by National Popular Vote to dump the electoral college in favor of the popular vote, and Massachusetts is just the latest state to walk that way.

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