MEVC September 13th Event

MEVC hosted a virtual program on September 13, 2023, as part of our ongoing effort to engage and collaborate with a diverse array of organizations and individuals. The first half of the program, led by Professor Alex Keyssar of Harvard’s Kennedy School, included a brief description of the harms and dangers of our presidential election system, followed by a summary of the working group’s assessment of the leading reform options.

The second half of the program focused on MEVC’s citizen outreach, engagement, and education initiative, and it included ideas about the kinds of materials that we and other attendees might share with our various audiences to revive and stimulate a national political conversation about Electoral College reform. If you would like to explore these topics in further detail, please watch clips from our event, copied below.

Assessment of the Leading Reform Proposals

Outreach: Youth

Outreach: Minority Voters

Outreach: Local Leaders

President Trump and Senator Warren Agree

Why Reform the Electoral College

The Electoral College is Not a College

We the People and the Electoral College

A Proportional Versus Popular Vote System

Election Night and the Electoral College

States Can Change the System

Swing States and the Electoral College

The True Story Behind the Electoral College

If We Treated Voters Like Consumers

Workers and the Electoral College

Small State Voters and the Electoral College

The Electoral College and Immigrants

Women and the Electoral College

Congressman Jamie Raskin on How to Improve National Voter Participation

James Glassman Explains a National Popular Vote

A Lecture on the Past and Future of the Electoral College

Racism's Anvil: The Electoral College