This is the first Tuesday after the second Wednesday in December following a general election.
If you did not know that, join the club.
The film fromIndependent Lensis now streamingvia PBS.
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Take this eye-opening fact that may flabbergast voters.
Instead, voters choose electors, who do the balloting on the date prescribed above.
The result is that candidates spend over 90 percent of their time in battleground states, notes Juson.
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Youve got billions of dollars being poured into battleground states, around presidents getting elected.
The current system privileges concerns of voters in those swing states.
And, so, it might make it more democratic in that sense.
It wasnt by accident.
As Dean Cobb points out, on a practical level, the system hardly changed post-bellum.
And, so, theres a kind of double bind there.
Juson emphasizes that her documentary is not partisan in nature.
This film is not about the candidates, its about the people.
It doesnt really matter who actually is the candidate, she says.
I focus on the people and the process and the people who dont understand the process… Thats when a joint session of Congress will convene to tally the votes.
January 6 the significance of that day is one everyone remembers.
