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13 May 2020, 1:43 pm by Michael Barber
” Similarly in Baca, electoral college delegates were denied an injunction in advance of the 2016 Electoral College in Colorado that would prevent a state law from forcing the delegates to cast their votes for the Democratic nominees. [read post]
7 Jan 2021, 9:05 pm by Joshua Burd
Congress certified the electoral college vote ratifying President-Elect Joe Biden’s victory over President Donald J. [read post]
8 Nov 2020, 11:07 pm
"If there is one saving grace amidst all of this confusion, it is that our Constitution again speaks quite clearly as to who has the definitive say about a State's choice of electors to the Electoral College. [read post]
11 Nov 2020, 11:11 pm
Six days before the prescribed meeting of the Electoral College on December 14 of this year falls on December 8. [read post]
24 Feb 2017, 6:13 am by Schachtman
In a recent news conference, Donald Trump (née Drumpf) proclaimed that that he had won the presidency by the largest electoral college margin since Ronald Reagan. [read post]
29 May 2020, 3:58 am by Edith Roberts
At Law & Liberty (via How Appealing), John McGinnis worries that in two cases involving “the ability of presidential electors in the Electoral College to exercise their own legal discretion in the choice of President,” “the Court may do grave damage to originalism by suggesting that the bad consequences of a constitutional provision or practice subsequent to the time of its enactment can override its original meaning. [read post]
17 Nov 2016, 11:30 am by Tom Smith
Getting rid of the Electoral College would provide pure "majority rules" democracy, but not freedom. [read post]
15 Dec 2016, 3:58 am by SHG
Then don’t blow your wad on silly twits over non-existent problems, or lengthy treatises on how the electoral college could save America. [read post]
5 Jan 2021, 11:28 am by Keith E. Whittington
The counting of the electoral votes in Congress has not quite been reduced to the same kind of mechanical process to which the casting of electoral votes at the meeting of the Electoral College has been. [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]
28 Sep 2021, 10:59 am by Neil H. Buchanan
Let us say that a state has sent only one set of electors to the Electoral College, and that those votes had been counted when the College gathered on December 14. [read post]
5 Jan 2021, 7:42 pm
 The news keeps changing as the tallying of Electoral College votes in the Capitol on January 6 approaches. [read post]
5 Jan 2021, 1:46 am
 The news keeps changing as the tallying of Electoral College votes in the Capitol on January 6 approaches. [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]
30 Nov 2016, 4:18 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
“Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election this month – in particular, his winning a clear majority of the Electoral College vote despite receiving nearly 1.3 million fewer popular votes than Hillary Clinton – prompted readers of another Pew Research Center Fact Tank post to wonder how the U.S. system compares with the way other countries elect their leaders. [read post]
7 Nov 2020, 10:31 am by Keith E. Whittington
We have all become more familiar with the unusual features of the Electoral College. [read post]
10 Mar 2008, 7:03 am
Bush, the Electoral College would step in to give the presidency to the popular vote loser, Al Gore. [read post]
7 Nov 2020, 10:21 am by Tom Smith
Biden’s apparent victory in Pennsylvania, which has 20 electoral votes, has him leading Trump 284-214 in the Electoral College. [read post]
5 Mar 2020, 10:58 am by Ian Ayres
Democrats only need to flip a net of 38 electoral votes from 2016 in order to win.We note, however, that Joe Biden has the largest electoral college lead of these candidates, which provides a buffer against the possibility that polls incorrectly measure Trump’s support (as was the case in 2016).The graphs below show how several candidates (including Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg, who have dropped out of the race) poll compared to Clinton’s 2016 election… [read post]