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28 Aug 2007, 10:57 am
The plan, as said, provides that Electoral College victory will go to the candidate who gets the most popular votes. [read post]
27 Aug 2007, 8:28 am
Jamie Raskin has written this piece for Slate.... [read post]
27 Aug 2007, 5:47 am
Ilya Somin and Neal Devins (George Mason University - School of Law and College of William and Mary - Marshall-Wythe School of Law) have posted Can We Make the Constitution More Democratic? [read post]
26 Aug 2007, 9:29 pm
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today announced that she will introduce a resolution to abolish the Electoral College and provide for the... [read post]
26 Aug 2007, 4:38 am
States with large numbers of votes in the electoral college (Florida, California, etc.) seem to be the ones wanting earlier primaries, and yet they’re also the states that get the most attention in the months leading up to the election. [read post]
22 Aug 2007, 11:39 am
Heck, why not go whole hog, ditch the electoral college and pick our President via an American Candidate-style show? [read post]
22 Aug 2007, 11:32 am
Really, we need to sit down and hammer out a new primary system and a new electoral process for choosing the president, as there is no good reason to retain the Electoral College, as it distorts the democratic significance of both large and small states and essentially eliminates the important of some votes (e.g., Democratic votes in Texas essentially count for nothing under the current system).Fair enough. [read post]
22 Aug 2007, 10:29 am
The NY Times offers this editorial, which begins: "The Electoral College should be abolished, but there is a right way to do it and a wrong way. [read post]
22 Aug 2007, 9:22 am
" Wait, so a competing initiative might have the right answer to Electoral College reform? [read post]
20 Aug 2007, 2:40 am
Pakhomious Coptic Orthodox Church an application for a real property tax exemption 599
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Jaffee -- Authorizes Congregation Ribnitz, Inc. to retroactively apply for a property tax exemption 598
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Lopez V (MS) -- Relates to the shelter allowance for individuals and families receiving public assistance and residing in city, state, or federal public housing 597
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Brook-Krasny (MS) -- Relates to shareholder votes in mutual companies… [read post]
18 Aug 2007, 9:03 am
In short, the choice isn't between Amar's proposal for a national popular election and the electoral college; the choice is between a winner-take-all electoral college vote distribution and more fine-grained methods of distribution. [read post]
17 Aug 2007, 4:32 pm
Gerry Hebert and Jesse Grauman have this post on the CLCBlog, which begins: "Over the past few weeks, members of both political parties have made efforts to tilt the scales in the 2008 elections by gaming the Electoral College. [read post]
14 Aug 2007, 2:47 am
I found myself thoroughly convinced by Mike's post on how overrated Rove has been as a "strategist. [read post]
27 Jul 2007, 4:21 am
Our political class could likewise care less about what the electorate thinks. [read post]
17 Jul 2007, 11:10 pm
David Lublin had this oped in Monday's Washington Post.... [read post]
17 Jul 2007, 4:22 pm
I strongly commend a column by David Lublin in yesterday's Washington Post detailing some of the problems with the current attempt to do in the electoral college via large states agreeing to cast their electoral votes for the popular vote winner. [read post]
16 Jul 2007, 5:44 am
The Twelfth Amendment is hereby modified to provide that separate electors shall be elected by popular vote in the states [NOTE: ALTHOUGH I WOULD GLADLY ABOLISH THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE, THIS AMENDMENT DOESN'T DO IT] with regard to choosing the President and the Vice President. [read post]
15 Jul 2007, 2:45 am
But that defect is probably best laid at the door of the Electoral College, for which the cure is either a constitutional amendment or the intriguing idea of a national popular vote interstate compact.Alas, we're probably already too far into the 2008 campaign for these inherently non-partisan reforms to be adopted, because the parties and the candidates will ask whether they will benefit in the next election. [read post]
30 Jun 2007, 7:40 am
And third, and probably the most honest of all, that all the charges thrown at her could be thrown at any other Maharashtra politician anyway because each one of them owns three things, a co-operative bank, a sugar mill and a bunch of colleges, and finally, that each one of these businesses lends itself to controversies. [read post]
29 Jun 2007, 1:10 am
The electoral college compendiously indicates a number of persons, holding the qualifications specified in the Article to constitute the electorate for the election of the President and to act as independent electors. [read post]
