The system used to elect the US President, where each state gets electors equal to its congressional delegation. Voters don't directly elect the president — they vote for electors who then cast the official ballots, a system that can produce winners who lost the popular vote.
See how the Common Good platform addresses the issues connected to this term.
Democracy only works when every citizen can participate. Gerrymandering, voter ID laws, and polling place closures are making it harder — deliberately.
3.9 million Americans in DC and Puerto Rico pay taxes, serve in the military, and are subject to federal law — but cannot vote for the people who write it. This is colonialism by another name.
The practice of drawing electoral district boundaries to give one party an unfair advantage in elections. Politicians pick their voters instead of voters picking their representatives, producing lopsided results that don't reflect how people actually voted.
An electoral system where voters rank candidates by preference instead of choosing just one. If no candidate wins a majority of first-choice votes, the last-place candidate is eliminated and their voters' second choices are redistributed — repeating until someone wins a true majority.