'My view is that every vote matters... and every vote counts.': Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she would back a plan to do away with the Electoral College.
The process, she said, effectively disenfranchises voters in states dominated by one of the two parties."Come a general election, presidential candidates don't come to places like Mississippi. They also don't come to places like California or Massachusetts, because we're not the battleground states," Warren said at a CNN town hall in Jackson, Mississippi.
"Read MoreThere are already efforts at the state level to diminish the effectiveness of the Electoral College in favor of the popular vote. Twelve states and Washington, D.C., have signed on to a compact agreeing to assign their Electoral College votes to the winner of the popular vote, regardless of the outcomes in their states.The states will make the switch once enough states have signed on to secure a cumulative 270 electoral votes.
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