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The Electoral College is flawed -- so are the alternatives: Experts • 17 min read Electoral College set to cast votes for president The 538 members of the Electoral College will cast their ballots Monday to elect the new president and vice president.AP Democracy is built on majority rule and the concept that every person's vote counts. Yet five times in history, American presidents have won office while losing the popular vote, with two of those instances coming in the past 20 years -- George W. Bush in 2000 by a margin of around 500,000 votes and Donald Trump in 2016 by about 3 million. A...

The Electoral College is flawed -- so are the alternatives: Experts © AP A map released by the Associated Press shows the Electoral College vote count as of 7:15 p.m. EST on Dec. 14, 2020. The map has been rotated and cropped by ABC. Democracy is built on majority rule and the concept that every person's vote counts. Yet five times in history, American presidents have won office while losing the popular vote, with two of those instances coming in the past 20 years -- George W. Bush in 2000 by a margin of around 500,000 votes and Donald Trump in 2016 by about 3 million. At issue is the...