Why Do We Still Have The Electoral College? | Throughline | NPR

What is it, why do we have it, and why hasn't it changed? Born from a rushed, fraught, imperfect process, the origins and evolution of the Electoral College might surprise you and make you think differently about not only this upcoming presidential election, but our democracy as a whole. NPR's Throughline podcast did a series of episodes on the history of our election system called (mis)Representative Democracy. Listen to the episodes: Episode 1: The Electoral College - https://www.npr.org/2020/09/30/918717... Episode 2: How We Vote - https://www.npr.org/2020/10/02/919532... Episode 3: The Most Sacred Right - https://www.npr.org/2020/10/02/919532... Hear more Throughline podcast episodes: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510333/t... ------------------------------------------------------ FOLLOW NPR ELSEWHERE   / npr     / npr     / npr   https://www.npr.org/