Group sues four states to challenge winner-take-all system for Electoral College selection
The Blaze Aug 13, 2018
A group is suing four U.S. states, claiming that the winner-take-all system for Electoral College selection disenfranchises voters and encourages presidential hopefuls to skip a large part of the country while campaigning.
What are the details?
Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld, Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig and one-time Al Gore attorney David Boies have teamed up to form the group Equal Votes and to sue the states of California, Texas, Massachusetts and South Carolina.
The plaintiffs contend that the winner-take-all system for divvying up electoral votes cheats voters and violates the “one person, one vote” principle that the Supreme Court has enshrined under the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. Currently, 48 states use the winner-take-all method to distribute electoral votes.
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