As Electoral College meets, one group works to rid nation of an ugly, old mess
By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press December 13, 2020 10:30pm Text size Copy shortlink:
When the Electoral College meets Monday, its detractors hope it marks the beginning of the end of a system that twice this century has vaulted the loser of the popular vote to the presidency.
This year s presidential race provides the latest motivation for change to supporters of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. While Democrat Joe Biden scored a decisive win over President Donald Trump in both the popular vote and Electoral College, the race came down to narrow margins in a handful of swing states.
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Few critics of the Electoral College are quite like Polly Baca.
Ms Baca believes that the Electoral College, which has chosen US presidents since George Washington, “has absolutely no reason to be.”
This year, she brought, and lost, a Supreme Court case challenging her state’s rules over how electors vote. Before electors cast their ballots for president in 2016, she invited several members to her home to plot a way - also unsuccessful - to circumvent the outcome.
But unlike Donald Trump, whose raft of legal filings and maneouvers has failed to change the result of this year’s election, Ms Baca is a Democrat. And she even serves as one of the body’s 538 electors while all but calling for the group to be abolished.
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