According to a 2024 Pew Research survey, more than 60% of Americans favor replacing the system with the popular vote to determine who wins the presidency. But it wouldn’t be a simple process.

A group of 538 electors are the only people who actually cast their ballot for President due to the Electoral College.

Set off by criticism from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the discussion has often focused on the system’s real but minor bias toward small states, and the system’s intended (by the founders) but now entirely ...

Signs are seen on a lawn near a US polling place in Arlington, Virginia, November 8, 2016.PAUL J. RICHARDS—AFP/Getty Images In November 2000, newly elected New York Senator Hillary Clinton promised ...