Your Weekly Constitutional
Your Weekly Constitutional
Stewart Harris
Electoral Reform
53 minutes Posted Jan 7, 2017 at 4:05 pm.
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In 2016, for the second time in sixteen years, a presidential candidate prevailed in the Electoral College while losing the popular vote – this time by a margin of roughly three million votes. Is it time to change our method of electing presidents?
Constitutional lawyer and historian David O. Stewart thinks so, and he’s decided to devote himself to a constitutional reform movement called the National Popular Vote Initiative.
Can we reform our electoral system without amending our Constitution? Should we?