Dr. Christopher Lawrence, professor and chair of MGA's Department of Political Science, offers perspective on the Electoral College in this Q&A featured on Middle Georgia CEO.
"There have been discussions on and off about reforming or abolishing the Electoral College. The states themselves can decide on different rules for choosing their electors. As noted above, Maine and Nebraska decided to use a hybrid system where the winner of the statewide vote gets 2 electors and then the winner in each congressional district gains an additional elector; other states could adopt a similar system, although the evidence suggests that adopting this change probably wouldn’t have made a big difference in recent presidential elections."
