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28 Sep 2007, 9:31 am
The LA Times offers this must read report which concludes that the California electoral college initiative is all but dead.... [read post]
28 Sep 2007, 7:45 am
Democrats and the six people who like the winner-take-all Electoral College can rejoice. [read post]
28 Sep 2007, 7:34 am
From the LA Times: "Plagued by a lack of money, supporters of a statewide initiative drive to change the way California's 55 electoral votes are apportioned, first revealed here by Top of the Ticket in July, are pulling the plug on that effort. [read post]
27 Sep 2007, 10:20 am
The SF Chronicle offers this report, which surely has the most tantalizing election-law related lede I've seen in some time: "Until this week, Missouri attorney Charles 'Chep' Hurth III was best known for a headline-grabbing incident a decade ago in... [read post]
26 Sep 2007, 8:16 pm
Hurth has emerged as an unlikely lead player in connection with the ballot measure that seeks to change the way California allocates its electoral college votes in the president election. [read post]
26 Sep 2007, 3:48 pm
talking about the California electoral college initiative (the subject of this oped). [read post]
25 Sep 2007, 7:25 am
It begins: "Might Democrats' fears of a Republican-backed initiative that would change how California allocates its 55 electoral college votes in the 2008 presidential election lead to a much-needed... [read post]
24 Sep 2007, 6:34 am
In 1966, I heard George Wallace when he came to a college in Upstate New York, and he was defending segregation. [read post]
23 Sep 2007, 5:30 pm
Bob Herbert has this must-read column on potential legal challenges to the California electoral college initiative, should it apply for the ballot. [read post]
20 Sep 2007, 7:48 am
Given the current nature of party representation in the Senate--in which Democrats hold both seats in several small states, including Rhode Island, Delaware, North Dakota, and Montana--the Senate's equal representation rule does not skew solely in the favor of the Republicans, as it tends to do in the context of the electoral college. [read post]
18 Sep 2007, 3:01 am
In Georgia, Indiana, and Missouri, state legislatures adopted laws requiring voters to provide government-issued photo ID in order to vote, despite arguments from voting rights advocates that such requirements would disproportionately burden poor, minority, disabled, elderly, and college-age voters. [read post]
17 Sep 2007, 4:12 am
Consider the electoral college, unequal representation in the Senate, the straight jacket of Article V, which sets forth the process of amending the constitution, an overly burdensome impeachment provision, the failure of checks and balances, the myth of the separation of powers, unelected judges rewriting the Constitution . . . whew . . . the weaknesses seem unlimited. [read post]
16 Sep 2007, 2:28 pm
It argues that, although imperfect, the Electoral College is superior... [read post]
7 Sep 2007, 12:25 pm
The framers enacted constitutional safeguards to protect individuals from their own caprice, such as a bicameral legislature and the Electoral College.Interest groups transparently participate in many areas of government, including lawmaking and political appointments. [read post]
6 Sep 2007, 9:41 am
The newspaper offers this report on the electoral college initiative, which begins: "A GOP-backed initiative to toss out California's winner-take-all system of assigning electoral votes was approved for circulation Wednesday, and Democrats immediately slammed it as a backdoor attempt to... [read post]
6 Sep 2007, 9:29 am
Bob Bauer offers these thoughts.... [read post]
5 Sep 2007, 9:51 am
Here she is on You Tube. [read post]
4 Sep 2007, 8:38 am
George Skelton has written this column on the electoral college initiative being circulated in California right now. [read post]
31 Aug 2007, 9:01 am
Still, some states are toying with Electoral College reforms at the state level. [read post]
31 Aug 2007, 12:47 am
From the absract:"This paper analyzes two of the three major options available to state leaders interested in taking action to reform how their state allocates its Electoral College votes: the whole number proportional and congressional district systems. [read post]
