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14 Jan 2020, 9:07 am
And a couple of cases involving so-called “faithless electors” who vote in the Electoral College contrary to the popular vote in their state. [read post]
7 Nov 2019, 12:00 pm
Corey Robin is a professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. [read post]
11 Dec 2019, 9:01 pm
Moreover, because the state’s African American population is not distributed evenly throughout the state but is concentrated in a relatively small number of House districts, the requirement (known as the “Electoral Vote Rule”) that a winning candidate prevail in a majority of House districts across the entire state hurts African Americans (and also Democrats).But even putting aside the claim of invidious racial intent (which we addressed in Part One and which will… [read post]
7 Nov 2022, 8:49 am
Indeed, the Electoral College was designed by the Framers specifically to prevent a national popular election of the President. [read post]
4 Jun 2012, 1:16 pm
Under these laws nationally, potentially millions of U.S. citizens could be pushed out of the electorate, because not everyone has one of the limited forms of accepted photo ID. [read post]
23 Dec 2022, 4:46 am
It listed contact information for nearly all of the 79 GOP nominees to the electoral college on the November ballot for Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. [read post]
1 Jun 2022, 9:00 pm
” With respect to presidential electors, Article II provides that “[e]ach state shall appoint, in a manner the legislature thereof may direct, [a set of electors]. [read post]
14 Nov 2019, 9:01 pm
” In other words, suspending even a likely unconstitutional electoral process in advance would be too disruptive. [read post]
28 Feb 2017, 6:31 pm
He said, “What they really wanted to do was just dump a barrel of hot garbage all over the American electoral system so that they could stop feeling so inferior about their own decrepit electoral system. [read post]
27 Nov 2015, 9:39 am
Virginia – used the power of judicial review to raise the professional standards of American public administrators in the fields of education, law enforcement, electoral administration, and family law. [read post]
4 Jul 2022, 9:01 pm
In other words, if an elected state legislature were to announce today that in 2024 it will pick presidential electors (to the electoral college) itself without regard to what the state voters desire, even if the state constitution provides that electors shall be chosen by the people, there is nothing any other organ of state government—the governor, the courts (as in the North Carolina case), the people themselves—could do about that.As I (and my… [read post]
16 Jul 2012, 2:32 pm
And that’s how it is with the continuing Republican rants about how our whole electoral system will fall about if we don’t make everyone hand over a photo ID before casting their ballot. [read post]
11 May 2012, 7:23 am
Also impressively, a freshmen student was able to provide a good explanation of the how the Electoral College works. [read post]
15 Jun 2024, 7:33 pm
In New York Times/Siena College polls over the last year, Mr. [read post]
10 Jun 2009, 1:31 am
Bush anyway under the federal Electoral Count Act, aided by a Republican-controlled Florida Legislature (which would have chosen a new slate of electoral college delegates), a Florida governor who was the President's brother, and a Florida Secretary of State who was the head of the President's Florida campaign committee.But we should not forget the contribution of five conservative Republican Justices of the Supreme Court in making sure that it was George W. [read post]
7 Nov 2020, 1:21 pm
In 2016, Republicans similarly claimed a mandate for Trump, even though the latter won only a razor-thin electoral college victory and lost the popular vote by a substantial margin. [read post]
23 Nov 2020, 7:34 am
Michigan lawmakers rejected the apparent attempt by President Trump to thwart the will of Michigan voters and select an illegitimate slate of electoral college electors. [read post]
28 Feb 2024, 10:05 am
Their power depends on the Electoral College, electoral shenanigans like gerrymandering after the 2010 census, and a bought Court that won’t touch their anti-democratic games. [read post]
15 Jul 2020, 3:00 am
The episode considers broader questions on the Electoral College system and what might occur in this year’s election. [read post]
17 Dec 2021, 8:00 am
Meadows — before states were even finished counting ballots — proposing an “aggressive strategy” in which Republican-controlled legislatures in Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and other states would “just send their own electors” instead of potential Biden electors chosen by voters. [read post]
