The Electoral College is one of the most consequential—and perhaps least understood—features of the American constitutional system. Americans often think of themselves as voting for president, but technically they vote for electors, through a system created at the founding that was deeply intertwined with slavery and that continues to shape where candidates campaign, whose votes matter most, and even whether the candidate who receives the most votes becomes president. Those questions became especially pressing after the elections of 2000 and 2016 and, in a very different way, in 2020, when the machinery of electors and congressional certification became central to an effort to overturn the election. This episode we discuss the 2024 documentary One Person, One Vote?, which aired on PBS’s Independent Lens and which explores the electoral college through its history and through the experiences of four actual electors during the 2020 election. Joining me are Professor Paul Finkelman, one of the film’s main expert historians, and Maximina Juson, the film’s director