Editing United States Electoral College (section)

==Further reading==
*  [[Eric Foner]], [https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n10/eric-foner/the-corrupt-bargain "The Corrupt Bargain"] (review of [[Alexander Keyssar]], ''Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?'', Harvard, 2020, 544 pp., {{ISBN|978-0674660151}}; and Jesse Wegman, ''Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College'', St Martin's Press, 2020, 304 pp., {{ISBN|978-1250221971}}), ''[[London Review of Books]]'', vol. 42, no. 10 (May 21, 2020), pp.&nbsp;3, 5–6. Foner concludes (p.&nbsp;6): "Rooted in distrust of ordinary citizens and, like so many other features of American life, in the institution of [[slavery in the U.S.|slavery]], the electoral college is a relic of a past the United States should have abandoned long ago."
* [[Michael Kazin]], [https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/electoral-college-alexander-keyssar/ "The Creaky Old System: Is the real threat to American democracy one of its own institutions?"] (review of [[Alexander Keyssar]], ''Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?'', Harvard, 2020, 544 pp., {{ISBN|978-0674660151}}), ''[[The Nation]]'', vol. 311, no. 7 (October 5/12, 2020), pp.&nbsp;42–44. Kazin writes: "[[James Madison]] [...] sought to replace [the Electoral College] with a national popular vote [...]. [p. 43.] [W]e endure with the most ridiculous system [on earth] for producing our head of state and government [...]." (p.&nbsp;44.)
* {{cite journal |last1=Erikson |first1=Robert S. |last2=Sigman |first2=Karl |last3=Yao |first3=Linan |title=Electoral College bias and the 2020 presidential election |journal=[[Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences]] |date=2020 |volume=117 |issue=45 |pages=27940–944 |doi=10.1073/pnas.2013581117 |pmid=33106408 |pmc=7668185 |bibcode=2020PNAS..11727940E |doi-access=free}}
* [[George C. Edwards III]], ''[https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16175486W/Why_the_electoral_college_is_bad_for_America?edition=key%3A/books/OL25053480M Why the Electoral College is Bad for America]'', second ed., New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2011, {{ISBN|978-0300166491}}.