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Meet the Electoral College's Biggest Haters: Some of the Electors Themselves

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Few critics of the Electoral College are quite like Polly Baca.Baca believes that the Electoral College, which has chosen U.S. 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 maneuvers has failed to change the result of this year's election, 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.Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times'There's absolutely no reason why the world's strongest democracy doesn't elect its CEO with the popular vote,' said Baca, who will cast one of Colorado's nine electoral votes for Joe Biden, the president-elect. 'I've been on the outside, but I prefer to go on the inside to see what I can do.'It is the Electoral College, not the direct vote of the American people, that will decide the next president Monday, when its 538 electors, chosen mostly during state party gatherings earlier this year, sign their ballots and send them to Washington.For generations, the body was viewed as a rubber stump to the will of the voters -- but as with many things, scrutiny came only when things seemed to go wrong. The 2000 contest between Al Gore and George W. Bush showed that a mere 537 popular ballots could tip Florida's Electoral College votes and, with it, the presidency. The 2016 election proved that a president could lose by millions of popular votes, yet be handed the White House anyway.'The head of the student council in your middle school was elected by a popular vote,' said Alexander Keyssar, a Harvard historian and the author of a book called 'Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?' 'I know it's an old-fashio

Polly Baca, who serves as one of the Electoral College's 538 electors, at her home in Denver on Jan. 30, 2020. Baca believes that the Electoral College, which has chosen U.S. 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.

“The head of the student council in your middle school was elected by a popular vote,” said Alexander Keyssar, a Harvard historian and the author of a book called “Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?” “I know it’s an old-fashioned notion, but the most fundamental democratic value is that all votes should count equally.”Yet it’s hard to think of a time before this year that dragged the Electoral College, and American democracy with it, into such dangerous territory.

That has left electors like Ronda Vuillemont-Smith, a conservative Oklahoma activist who will cast her vote for Trump on Monday, believing the president will stay in office. He said the election reminded him of a stint when he lived in Uganda and its president jailed his main opponent ahead of an election, something that Trump also has repeatedly called for during his campaigns.

“I was one of the few asking to be an elector, and I would say 90% of people didn’t know what that was,” he said. “They were randomly asking people if they would be an elector,” said Justin Sheldon, a lawyer who sued on Wright’s behalf. “We have to go much further than that,” she said, noting that the Electoral College was established by the Constitution and therefore hard to circumvent. “We have to amend the Constitution, and allow democracy to work, as we’ve told other democracies it should work.”

“We were trying to stop this populist firestorm of this man getting elected,” said Suprun, who agreed to cast his vote for John Kasich, then the Republican governor of Ohio and a 2016 GOP primary candidate.

 

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