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30 Oct 2012, 2:17 pm
The Fix: ”Most likely voters — including both Democrats and Republicans — say the winner of the presidential election should be decided by popular vote, not the electoral college, according to the latest release of the Washington Post-ABC News tracking poll.” [read post]
"What Happens If Donald Trump Withdraws? The Electoral College would be the Republicans' Hail Mary."
8 Oct 2016, 1:40 pm
The Electoral College would be the Republicans' Hail Mary. [read post]
5 Dec 2011, 9:30 am
STEPHEN GREEN: WARGAMING THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE. “For the Democrats, it might all come down to Florida. [read post]
11 Apr 2007, 12:09 am
[JURIST] Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley signed off on legislation [SB 634 materials] Tuesday that will award Maryland's ten votes in the US Electoral College [NARA materials] to the national popular vote winner in presidential elections, instead of the recipient of the most votes in Maryland. [read post]
25 Apr 2024, 6:57 am
I was very fortunate to be able to attend this symposium at Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, where I presented the idea of a “Top 3” presidential election system based on Common Ground Democracy … Continue reading The post “Electoral College Symposium: What’s to be Done? [read post]
4 Mar 2024, 8:54 am
Anderson (and the unanimous consensus of the Supreme Court): Because federal officers “‘owe their existence and functions to the united voice of the whole,… Continue reading The post Fourteenth Amendment federalism over Electoral College federalism in Trump v. [read post]
21 Mar 2018, 9:01 pm
In my last column, 2020 Election Legal Maneuvering, I described a recent lawsuit filed by some prominent lawyers and law professors challenging Texas’s use of the so-called Winner-Take-All (WTA) approach to selecting the state’s representatives to the so-called Electoral College. [read post]
PREDICTION: We’ll soon see a lot of complaints about the fundamental unfairness of the Electoral Co…
7 Jul 2012, 3:30 pm
PREDICTION: We’ll soon see a lot of complaints about the fundamental unfairness of the Electoral College. [read post]
25 Oct 2023, 7:22 am
Trump’s ploys to overturn his defeat, the objections to the Electoral College results by so many House… Continue reading The post The “most important architect” of Trump’s Bogus Electoral College Objections Poised to Be Next Speaker of the House, and Republicans Don’t Want to Talk About It appeared first on Election Law Blog. [read post]
23 Apr 2020, 8:08 am
Fifth: The two principal models for the Electoral College were the indirect election systems then prevailing in Scotland (for members of the British Parliament) and in Maryland (for state senators). [read post]
17 Dec 2016, 11:37 am
via dailycaller.com The Constitution, a living, breathing document, has grown up, turned around, or rather within, looked at the Electoral College, and said "what the heck is this?! [read post]
30 Dec 2020, 12:50 pm
Bush would have been denied the presidency from the Electoral College. [read post]
10 Oct 2023, 7:57 am
Matthew Seligman at Just Security: his report analyzes the legal propriety of multiple slates of elector-nominees casting ballots purporting to be their state’s votes in the Electoral College. [read post]
19 Apr 2023, 7:34 am
AJC: The Fulton County District Attorney’s office has offered immunity deals to some of the alternate GOP electors who met at the Georgia Capitol and cast phony Electoral College votes for Donald Trump following the 2020 election. [read post]
16 Jun 2022, 8:36 am
The Justice Department has reportedly begun sending subpoenas and seeking interviews with at least 15 people around the country who were selected (before the election) to be Trump electors but who were replaced on the day of the electoral college vote or chose not to participate. [read post]
15 Dec 2016, 1:16 pm
Though individuals chosen to vote in the Electoral College have previously switched sides, at no time was it more controversial than it is today. [read post]
3 Aug 2022, 11:44 am
"Unless another party's nominee receives at least 90 percent of the popular vote, our state will send the Republican candidate's slate to the Electoral College. [read post]
28 Dec 2020, 8:10 am
It’s simply a political decision.The Twelfth Amendment (and before that, Article II) puts the President of the Senate—the Vice President—in charge of opening electoral college certificates when the votes are counted in Congress. [read post]
16 Jul 2020, 9:01 pm
Importantly, the agreement, by its own terms, would not go into effect until a sufficient number of states to comprise a majority of the electoral college—that is, states whose electoral college allotments collectively total 270 or more—ratify it.Let me identify three ways Chiafalo and Baca help NPV.First, Justice Kagan’s opinion for the Court amplified the breadth of the authority Article II confers on states in picking electors. [read post]
5 Dec 2016, 7:28 am
ConLawProf Lawrence Lessig has a terrific post sharing arguments that the present "winner take all" rule (in all but 2 states) for allocating electoral votes violates the Equal Protection Clause. [read post]
