Electoral System Quotes

Now I have very little respect for the electoral system in the United States. I could have respected it in the early days, when the country was small and we had small population. The system that we have in the United States was set up at a time when the total population was the population of Tennessee. We've stretched it to try to make it work for different kind of problems and in stretching and adapting it, we've lost its meaning. We still have the form but not the meaning. There's a lot of things that we have to look at critically that might have been useful at one time that are no longer useful I think there's some good in everything. There's some bad in everything. But there's so little good in some things that you know for practical purposes they're useless. They're beyond salvation. There's so much good in some things, even though there's bad, that we build on that.

The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.

Donald J. Trump

No matter their party, people with a conflict of interest should be banned from the Electoral College.

DaShanne Stokes

An institution rooted in slavery can never set us free.

DaShanne Stokes

Free elections don't always result in fair elections.

DaShanne Stokes