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14 Jul 2019, 6:32 pm by Howard Bashman
Supreme Court ruled federal judges cannot curb partisan gerrymandering, reform advocates vowed to take their fight to state courts that retain the power to police the practice of drawing electoral lines for political advantage. [read post]
7 Aug 2023, 7:51 am by Rick Hasen
WaPo: The allegation that campaign officials sought to prevent electors in other states from learning about the language used in Pennsylvania is a key new revelation in the four-count, 45-page federal indictment, which accuses Trump of a sprawling effort to… Continue reading The post “‘Fake’ elector plot raised concerns over legal peril, indictment shows” appeared first on Election Law Blog. [read post]
2 Apr 2024, 2:39 pm by Ned Foley
New Common Ground Democracy essay: “Ohio’s partisan polarization is so severe that stronger medicine than Alaska’s new electoral reform is necessary to avoid the election of extreme candidates in the Buckeye State. [read post]
23 May 2024, 10:30 am by Rick Hasen
WaPo: Republican activists in at least three states where Donald Trump tried to reverse his defeat in 2020 — nearly all of them under criminal indictment for casting electoral votes for him despite his loss — are poised to reprise… Continue reading The post “Electors who tried to reverse Trump’s 2020 defeat are poised to serve again” appeared first on Election Law Blog. [read post]
31 Oct 2017, 1:26 pm by Steve Gottlieb
Let me repeat one crucial phrase, “the electors of every senate district of the state. [read post]
9 Jul 2012, 6:26 am by Michael Froomkin
(The system overweights small states, since every state gets at least three electoral votes regardless of population as does DC.) [read post]
28 Oct 2008, 8:20 pm
In almost every state, whichever candidate wins the popular vote gets to seat its party's electors in the Electoral College, and is entitled to all of that state's electoral votes. [read post]
19 Dec 2016, 5:45 am by Kevin
In fact, most states have a law requiring electors to vote that way. [read post]
3 Jun 2023, 6:10 am by Richard Pildes
We’ve known that the McCain-Feingold… Continue reading The post Must Read on How Outside Donors Have Undermined State Political Parties and the Electoral Consequences appeared first on Election Law Blog. [read post]
31 May 2024, 4:58 pm by Rick Hasen
On the fourth… Continue reading The post “Michigan testimony points to ongoing state, federal probes into false electors” appeared first on Election Law Blog. [read post]
18 May 2008, 6:24 am
  “Enormous scope exists to examine the possibilities for rethinking electoral processes, voter registration, [...] [read post]
18 Apr 2014, 10:04 am
The commitment to switch a state's electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote will kick in once a total of 270 electoral votes are represented by the states committed to switching. 270 is the majority needed to win, so the plan won't go into effect until the states in the plan have the power to determine that the national vote winner will in fact win.Now, why is it that the states who are jumping for this are all blue… [read post]
4 Jan 2021, 8:51 am
Second, Congress would imperil the Electoral College, which gives small states like Arkansas a voice in presidential elections. [read post]
3 Jan 2022, 9:35 am by Ari Savitzky
The people of Georgia deserve far better than these unfair, racially discriminatory electoral maps, and we won’t stop fighting until they are blocked. [read post]
Under the Constitution, each state appoints presidential electors “in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct,” giving state legislatures broad authority to define through state law how that state’s electors should be allocated. [read post]
22 Oct 2012, 11:26 am by jleaming@acslaw.org
Jamie Raskin, state senator from decidedly blue-state Maryland, argued on ACSblog that our “weird lottery” incentivizes partisan mischief and electoral corruption in a handful of states to swing elections. [read post]
4 Nov 2011, 9:54 pm
"Antiabortion movement hoping for electoral victory in Miss. [read post]
7 Nov 2020, 10:31 am by Keith E. Whittington
But some aspects of the Electoral College remain obscure, and the role of the state legislatures in the process is among them. [read post]