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3 Dec 2016, 7:42 am by Daniel Shaviro
At the risk of belaboring the obvious, suppose that Trump had won the popular vote by 2.5 million, but that Clinton had won the Electoral College via narrow wins in several battleground states. [read post]
27 Apr 2022, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Here, I want to explain why no presidential election should ever be thrown to the House (except in the case of an actual tie in the Electoral College) and why Democrats ought to say so. [read post]
3 Nov 2007, 11:04 am
The initiative would ask voters to replace California's winner-take-all system of allocating its 55 electoral college votes with one that parses the votes by Congressional district. [read post]
25 Jul 2022, 7:33 am by Rick Hasen
It begins: Last week’s announcement by a bipartisan group of senators proposing reforms to the poorly written 1887 law that governs Congress’ counting of the Electoral College votes is a good half-loaf measure… Continue reading [read post]
16 Jun 2022, 3:50 pm by Ned Foley
A theme of today’s hearing was Eastman’s own recognition of just how wrong his proposal was for Pence to subvert the Electoral College outcome. [read post]
26 Nov 2008, 7:10 pm
A lawyer who is playing a key role in a California lawsuit urging officials to prevent the state's 55 Electoral College votes from being recorded for Barack Obama until questions about his citizenship are resolved says he's organizing plans to... [read post]
29 Mar 2007, 6:41 am
The Washington Post reports: Maryland is poised to become the first state to agree to bypass the electoral college and effectively elect U.S. presidents by national popular vote under legislation moving briskly toward the desk of Gov. [read post]
10 May 2012, 7:46 am by Tom Smith
The bottom line is that at this point Obama doesn't have an Electoral College lock. [read post]
10 Jun 2022, 8:23 am by Guy Charles
Cardozo Law Professor Kate Shaw in the Atlantic on the Electoral College. [read post]
11 Sep 2015, 6:59 am
The guide includes information about the 2016 Presidential election candidates, the electoral college, election history, campaign finance, voter registration, and other relevant topics. [read post]
21 Feb 2008, 5:01 pm
Next Friday I'll be at a Hastings symposium presenting this paper on the constitutionality of initiated electoral college reform. [read post]
5 Nov 2013, 8:43 am by Steve Bainbridge
The other day I prepared a map showing which states have adopted the Model Business Corporation Act: Looking at it, I got to wondering how the MBCA would do in the Electoral College (if you think I'm... [[ This is a content summary only. [read post]
27 Mar 2017, 10:50 am by Tom Smith
If broken apart, the eastern part of California would more likely vote Republican, giving the party two more senators and electoral college votes for a 2020 presidential election. [read post]
15 Nov 2007, 7:27 am
The Politico offers this report, which begins: "A proposed California ballot initiative affecting Electoral College vote-counting is setting off a proxy war between supporters of two presidential front-runners, Republican Rudy Giuliani and Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton. [read post]
17 Mar 2024, 12:11 pm by Rick Hasen
Michael Tomasky on a potential 269-269 electoral college tie leading to a contingent election where each state’s U.S. [read post]
21 Nov 2007, 9:41 am
In this follow-up on The Caucus (NY Times political blog), we learn that "The chairman of a committee formed to fight a Republican-supported ballot initiative to change how California's electoral college votes are... [read post]
23 Sep 2008, 8:59 pm
Call them the "Doomsday" scenarios -- On Nov. 5, the presidential election winds up in a electoral-college tie, 269-269, the Democrat-controlled House picks... [read post]
4 Nov 2020, 8:40 am by Brian Leiter
...since the actual election isn't over yet we can't do a post-mortem on that: but it looks like Biden will just barely win the electoral college, but it's unlikely that the Democrats will take control of the Senate--more on that... [read post]
24 Oct 2022, 7:09 am by Rick Hasen
NYT: To understand the social forces converging in that historic vote — objecting to the Electoral College count — The Times examined the constituencies of the lawmakers who joined the effort, analyzing census and other data from congressional districts and… Continue reading [read post]
6 Nov 2020, 8:00 am by Brian Leiter
Biden will win the electoral college: he is ahead in Pennsylvania, Georgia (wow!) [read post]