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15 May 2023, 3:55 am by Lawrence Solum
Section III turns to the four clauses in the Constitution that use the phrase “Office . . . under the United States,” albeit with some variations: the Elector Incompatibility Clause, the Impeachment Disqualification Clause, the Incompatibility Clause, and the Foreign Emoluments Clause. [read post]
8 Sep 2008, 8:41 am
" But the county registrar in the county where Virginia Tech trains the next generation of dog-fighting quarterbacks recently announced that students who register to vote at their college address (specifically, a dormitory) are subject to sanctions. [read post]
24 Jan 2012, 7:50 am by jarogeti
Tokaji, a law professor at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and senior fellow for Election Law @ Moritz. [read post]
2 Sep 2008, 4:59 pm
You get a better rate of interest that way, and sometimes the court will let you extend the payout until age 21, which can be helpful with things like college financial aid. [read post]
12 Dec 2016, 6:00 am by Shontavia Johnson
(Had only millennials, America’s largest generation, voted, Clinton would have received 473 electoral votes and Trump would have received 32.) [read post]
5 Nov 2012, 7:46 am
  And let us not forget the absurdity of the Electoral College and its effect on what counts as the true choice.) [read post]
17 Feb 2017, 2:55 am by NCC Staff
The 12th Amendment made sure separate ballots were cast in the Electoral College for President and Vice President; the House would settle an election without a majority winner with a contingent election featuring the top three vote getters; and the House would determine rules for conducting the election. [read post]
9 Dec 2011, 9:55 am by Sam Favate
Speaking at the Heritage Foundation, the Senate Republican minority leader said this is “the most important issue in America that nobody is talking about,” and said the movement is “getting dangerously close to achieving their goal of eliminating the Electoral College without actually amending the Constitution,” MSNBC reported. [read post]
17 Feb 2018, 2:55 am by NCC Staff
The 12th Amendment made sure separate ballots were cast in the Electoral College for President and Vice President; the House would settle an election without a majority winner with a contingent election featuring the top three vote getters; and the House would determine rules for conducting the election. [read post]
23 Sep 2013, 9:08 am by J. Gordon Hylton
Such a shift would have made Hunter or Guthrie the winner by an Electoral College majority of 158 to 145. [read post]
16 Dec 2016, 3:19 pm by Tom Smith
But California is the exception that proves the true genius of the Electoral College — which was designed to prevent regional candidates from dominating national elections. [read post]
11 Aug 2012, 11:00 am by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
Right now, President Obama has a modest three-point lead over Romney in the state, and it remains a Toss-Up in the Rasmussen Reports Electoral College Projections. [read post]
13 Aug 2022, 10:34 am by Tom Smith
As the population shifts towards states in the south and the intermountain west, the political order will follow, as these places are set to gain more congressional seats and electoral-college votes for presidential elections. [read post]
1 Sep 2020, 8:44 am by Tom Smith
  Remember, because he likely has a built-in edge in the Electoral College, a reasonably small bounce at the national level would make this a very competitive race. [read post]
8 Apr 2021, 3:41 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The ongoing struggle in the United States between advocates for voting rights and official proponents of voter suppression measures intensified in 2020 during a bitter presidential election campaign conducted amidst the substantial additional challenges to participatory democracy posed by the global pandemic…Columbia University Libraries has initiated a new thematic web archive collection devoted to documenting these historic debates and any ensuing legislation, both at the national and in… [read post]
9 May 2017, 12:19 pm by Tom Smith
Enraged legal academics have manufactured grotesque theories about the emoluments clause, the Electoral College, and the establishment clause just to bring him down. [read post]
8 Jan 2008, 11:43 am
New Hampshire by the numbers:2008: 850,836 total registered voters 26% Democratic 30% Republican 44% Independent Delegates: 27 22 tied to primary results 5 super-delegates, free to choose Electoral College Votes: 4 [More...] [read post]
15 Sep 2019, 4:06 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Feasible policy changes—including awarding each state’s Electoral College ballots proportionally between parties rather than awarding all to the state winner—could substantially reduce inversion probabilities, though not in close elections. [read post]
22 Apr 2008, 6:20 pm
Green's still sober enough to make this excellent point about the Democrats' nominating rules: "If the Democrats ran a winner-take-all system like the Republicans and the Electoral College do, sheâ € â„¢d have this thing clinched â € â [read post]