Bookshop Santa Cruz Presents: Jesse Wegman | LET THE PEOPLE PICK THE PRESIDENT

Join us for this online event with Jesse Wegman who will be in conversation with Ryan Coonerty about his new book, Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College.
Two of the last five presidential elections have been won by the candidate who lost the popular vote, calling the integrity of America’s entire electoral system into question. Political passions are already high, and they will reach a boiling point as we enter the 2020 race. The message from the American people is clear: we need major reform, and we need it now. In Let the People Pick the President, New York Times editorial board member Jesse Wegman makes a powerful case for choosing presidents based on a national popular vote. In this compact, deeply researched, highly readable history of the Electoral College, he describes its controversial origins, profiles some of the more than 700 efforts to abolish or reform it over the years, and explains why it is now essential for us to revamp this obsolete system and finally make every citizen's vote matter.
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