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8 Nov 2005, 2:40 am
Voters in New Jersey and Virginia are electing new governors [Reuters report], while 39 ballot measures are up for approval in seven states [Stateline.org report]: California, Maine, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Texas, and Washington. [read post]
2 Nov 2020, 5:24 am
In our electoral map no candidate has a majority of 271 electors when election day is over. [read post]
28 Sep 2020, 10:03 am
Because all states award their presidential electors on a winner-take-all basis (except for Maine and Nebraska, where it’s winner-take-all for two statewide, and winner-take-all, or really winner-take-each, per congressional district), a third-party candidate would need more votes than both the Republican and Democratic candidates in a state, and end up depriving those candidates of a majority. [read post]
21 Jul 2022, 5:06 am
The act will require the governor of each state to identify and submit their state’s electors unless otherwise specified by state laws. [read post]
13 Oct 2011, 6:48 am
Maine and Nebraska currently have similar electoral distribution methods, although Republicans in Nebraska considered changing the state’s system back to winner-take-all after President Obama won one of the state’s electoral votes in 2008, according to the Omaha World Herald. [read post]
21 Oct 2011, 4:04 am
The path to 270 electoral votes is still there, but the window is narrowing.” [read post]
22 Aug 2007, 11:32 am
Currently, California employs a winner-take-all system that awards the state's entire 55 electoral votes to the winner of the state's popular vote. [read post]
13 May 2020, 1:43 pm
Baca both ask whether the Constitution prevents a state from requiring its presidential electors to comply with the state’s popular vote when casting their votes with the electoral college. [read post]
29 Nov 2018, 9:00 pm
In effect, he drew an inside straight by winning outright majorities in enough key Northern states to assure an electoral college victory.Objections to an STV/Instant Runoff System and Possible ResponsesRanked-Choice Voting is not without problems. [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 6:30 am
This is the system adopted in all of the states save Maine and Nebraska. [read post]
7 Jan 2024, 9:39 am
The Maine decision will now be reviewed by the Maine state courts, but the Colorado decision is scheduled for oral argument in a matter of weeks. [read post]
28 Aug 2007, 10:57 am
It is thought that this would insure Republican victory in any close election, because all other states (except Maine and Nebraska) now use the statewide unit rule, under which all of a state's electoral votes go to the candidate who gets the most popular votes in a state. [read post]
2 Jan 2024, 4:00 am
Yet Democrats know that they need only to remove Trump from the ballots of a couple of key states to make him constitutionally incapable of becoming president, due to the electoral college. [read post]
22 Sep 2022, 1:33 pm
In a July post, building on the work of Andy Craig of the Cato Institute (a leading expert on ECA reform), I summarized the three main goals a reform bill achieve: 1. [read post]
15 Sep 2011, 12:46 pm
Following up on Gerard’s post, I agree that there is nothing wrong with states changing the way they allocate their electoral votes in presidential elections. [read post]
29 Sep 2010, 7:45 am
But the states where Republicans are leading cast 274 electoral votes. [read post]
11 Oct 2022, 6:17 am
The points that were left visible noted that one of the 11 alternative electors, David Shafer, serves as the head of the state GOP and that another, Shawn Still, served as the secretary of the Georgia GOP. [read post]
22 Oct 2012, 12:20 pm
The main reason that Silver feels Obama is still an overwhelming favorite is that while Romney has surged in the polls to tie (or lead) Obama nationally, the challenger is still, in Silver’s opinion, a long shot to pull together enough battleground states to get to 270 electoral votes. [read post]
14 Oct 2020, 6:30 am
Nor, again with the single exception of Maine, do states currently used Ranked Choice Voting to appoint electors. [read post]
9 May 2012, 9:03 am
“Can Romney win this swing-state’s critical electoral votes? [read post]
