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19 Nov 2020, 5:53 pm
To build upon my prior post about the constitutional doubts that exist about the authority of a state legislature to appoint presidential electors after the election was held in a manner inconsistent with the popular vote in that state, consider Section Two of Fourteenth Amendment:[W]hen the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States . . . is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such state,… [read post]
8 Sep 2008, 12:15 pm
UH OH: Wargaming the Electoral College. [read post]
30 Oct 2007, 7:08 am
The latest on the California electoral college initiative.... [read post]
13 Jul 2020, 9:01 pm
The framers were particularly worried about corruption or undue influence (especially of foreign powers) in the selection of Presidents, which is why the word “ballot” appears in the Constitution only in connection with the Electoral College and House selection of Presidents when the Electoral College fails to generate a winner. [read post]
2 Jan 2021, 6:24 pm
Ron Johnson from Wisconsin to join 10 others from GOP in refusing to certify Electoral College results”: Bill Glauber of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report. [read post]
31 Jan 2008, 5:01 am
The Michigan Law Review â [read post]
6 Jan 2005, 5:34 am
[JURIST] Following up on a report this morning in JURIST's Paper Chase, Democratic lawmakers in the House and Senate have halted Congress' formal certification of the electoral college results and have forced a two-hour debate on problems encountered in the Ohio presidential vote after a challenge. [read post]
9 Sep 2019, 6:49 am
In fact, the smallest states held 97 Electoral College votes. [read post]
9 Sep 2019, 6:49 am
In fact, the smallest states held 97 Electoral College votes. [read post]
7 Nov 2008, 3:51 pm
The NY Times offers this piece on the Electoral College and the potential for reform. [read post]
2 Nov 2004, 8:46 pm
This bring electoral college totals to Bush, 271 (including OH and NV) and Kerry 252. [read post]
15 Nov 2007, 4:40 pm
USING AND ABUSING THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE: Jennifer Hendricks has thoughts on the "Agreement Among the States," in which states pledge their electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular vote. [read post]
8 Mar 2008, 7:09 am
So what we have is an attempt to apply to the nominating process the Electoral College's effective disenfranchisement of those unlucky enough to live in states where they are the political minority and the insane emphasis on a relatively few "battleground" states . [read post]
14 Dec 2020, 12:18 pm
“Trump And His Allies Have Lost Nearly 60 Election Fights In Court (And Counting); The campaign’s latest legal failures come as the Electoral College votes to affirm President-elect Joe Biden’s win on Monday”: Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed News has this report. [read post]
21 Dec 2020, 10:26 am
Pennsylvania Would Have Upended the Electoral College; Texas’s innovative injury would allow any state to sue any other state, directly in the Supreme Court, for breach of its election laws”: Derek Muller has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog. [read post]
12 May 2020, 1:31 pm
Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases involving challenging the authority of the state to control how individual presidential electors cast their ballots when the Electoral College assembles in December. [read post]
14 Dec 2020, 5:54 pm
Today, at almost precisely the moment that California’s electors voted to put Biden over the top in the electoral college, Trump confirmed that the Times was right. [read post]
6 Jul 2020, 8:24 am
On the other hand, for those who hate the Electoral College and have felt bad about the seeming impossibility of amending the Constitution to change it, the crazy chaos of constitutionally empowered electors could be horrible enough to push the states to ratify an abolition of the Electoral College. [read post]
21 Jul 2022, 9:22 am
DorfMuch of the news coverage of the proposed legislation to reform the Electoral Count Act (ECA) has focused on its provision (Section 15(b)(1)) stating that in the counting of the Electoral College (EC) votes at the January 6 joint session of Congress, the role of the Vice President (technically the President of the Senate) is entirely ministerial. [read post]
21 Aug 2019, 6:16 pm
Pete Williams of NBC News has a report headlined “Faithless elector: A court ruling just changed how we pick our president; The decision could give a single elector the power to decide the outcome of a presidential election — if the popular vote results in an apparent Electoral College tie. [read post]
