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=====Getting rid of Trump won't be enough to fix America's broken democracy===== | |||
[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/07/us-democracy-trump-election-gerrymandering David Daley Sat 7 Nov 2020] | |||
Skewed institutions like the senate and electoral college, plus gerrymandering and voter suppression, have rigged the system in Republicans’ favor | |||
Even with a Biden administration, the worsening structural inequities embedded in the nation for centuries – and cynically exploited by Republicans to govern with narrow minority support – will still be with us. They are embodied in institutions such as the electoral college, which elected Trump in 2016 despite his losing the popular vote by almost 3 million votes. | |||
In fact, including Biden, the Democratic candidate for president has won the popular vote in seven of the last eight elections. But in part because of the electoral college’s rural bias (a vote cast for president in Wyoming counts nearly four times as much as a vote cast in California), and in part because the college heightens the importance of a handful of largely white, midwestern battleground states, Republicans have won the White House with fewer votes twice since 2000. | |||
===== Democracy Diverted: Polling Place Closures and the Right to Vote ===== | ===== Democracy Diverted: Polling Place Closures and the Right to Vote ===== | ||
