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11 Jul 2023, 5:50 am
Capitol in an effort to prevent Congress from counting the Electoral College ballots that would declare Joe Biden the presidential victor. [read post]
10 Jul 2023, 7:42 am
Abolishing or reforming the electoral college has long been a subject of proposed amendments (as one will soon learn by perusing the database), and this proposal of a random ball drawing may have been meant as a parody of the existing system. [read post]
7 Jul 2023, 1:03 pm
Freedman Presidential Professor, Dartmouth College), Ethan Porter (Assistant Professor, George Washington University), Timothy J. [read post]
5 Jul 2023, 6:42 am
She earned a master of electoral law degree from the University of Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. [read post]
4 Jul 2023, 9:02 pm
(This theory, according to its proponents, would also, because Article II’s Electors Clause also mentions state “legislatures,” enable ordinary elected state legislatures to regulate presidential elections free from state constitutional constraints.) [read post]
30 Jun 2023, 6:19 am
Proponents of free labor and racial equality sought constitutional reform because the unamended constitution provided former confederate states with thirty extra seats in the House of Representatives and thirty extra votes in the Electoral College for former slaves denied the ballot. [read post]
29 Jun 2023, 9:15 pm
Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, held that admissions programs that consider race at Harvard College and the University of North Carolina (UNC) violate the U.S. [read post]
28 Jun 2023, 5:34 pm
Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 in the Presidential Electors Clause says that "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct. [read post]
28 Jun 2023, 11:36 am
(I am not saying that his losing the election would stop him from again trying to overturn the results, but certainly being certified the winner of the Electoral College vote would not be met with a Biden-led self-coup.)Finally, what happens if the trials are all delayed beyond the next election? [read post]
27 Jun 2023, 9:34 am
Trump (as seems likely even if Trump is in prison), and that Biden wins the popular vote and the Electoral College vote but that the latter is close enough that Trump needs to flip only a few states, including Wisconsin, by having them enact new laws giving their Electoral College votes to Trump. [read post]
27 Jun 2023, 9:01 am
” Article II’s electors clause provides that states shall appoint presidential electors for the Electoral College “in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct. [read post]
27 Jun 2023, 4:00 am
Candidates presented themselves for election, publicized platform commitments, communicated with electors by email and pamphlet, and even, controversially, organized themselves into competing slates. [read post]
27 Jun 2023, 12:00 am
After Counterman, no responsible prosecutor—certainly not special counsel Jack Smith—will bring an indictment against Trump unless they feel confident that they could prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that at least part of what motivated Trump to speak and act the way he did on Jan. 6 was a desire to see his supporters forcefully disrupt the certification of the electoral college vote. [read post]
23 Jun 2023, 1:49 pm
His opinion begins: Three voters and three Republican nominees to the electoral college in Michigan brought this suit in a bid to overturn the results of the state's 2020 presidential election. [read post]
18 Jun 2023, 12:07 am
” Quick links Philip Cowley and Alan Wager, Theos: Does the British Electorate Mind Politicians Doing God? [read post]
14 Jun 2023, 8:00 am
But at present, that's not at all clear.One might object that Democrats have demographic advantages, that they have won the popular vote in seven out of the last eight presidential elections, and that Republicans have only been able to win the Presidency through the Electoral College. [read post]
13 Jun 2023, 7:44 pm
As strong as the Mar-a-Lago Documents indictment of Donald Trump is, I don’t foresee it eliminating the significant possibility that he will win the Electoral College in 2024 even as he loses the national popular vote. [read post]
12 Jun 2023, 5:10 pm
Wisconsin is the state most likely to be the one that determines which side reaches 270 in the Electoral College next year, and the administration of the voting… Continue reading The post “Wisconsin’s top elections official for 2024 uncertain as incumbent’s term nears end” appeared first on Election Law Blog. [read post]
8 Jun 2023, 10:48 am
Rather than running through the full list of ways in which the Republicans could subvert future elections -- a menu that I have discussed before and that includes partisan takeovers of vote-counting, the nutty "independent state legislature" gambit, legislation (even absent ISL) in Republican-controlled states to set aside the popular vote where necessary, and so on -- I focus only on the problem of the January 6 joint session of Congress to certify the results of the… [read post]
7 Jun 2023, 9:01 pm
Indeed, even the people lodging the challenges knew full well that they were tilting at windmills.Even though the relevant law (the Electoral Count Act) was amended by law in December 2022—in ways that seem entirely sensible—the bottom line remains that a simple majority vote of both the House and the Senate is sufficient to refuse to recognize a state’s electors. [read post]
