Category Archives: electoral college
“Faithless Electors Are Still a Problem”
Jonathan Bernstein:
You know what both U.S. political parties aren’t paying enough attention to? Electors. That is, the actual people who will cast electoral votes in the next election. They’ll be chosen, using state-by-state procedures, sometime next year, and they’ll… Continue reading
“Washington State Supreme Court upholds fines for 2016 faithless electors”
Derek Muller:
In the latest of a string of litigation surrounding faithless electors, the Washington State Supreme Court has issued its decision in In re Guerra, here. Four electors cast votes for candidates other than Hillary Clinton… Continue reading
Foley on Ranked-Choice Voting in Presidential Elections
Ned Foley in Politico Magazine, suggesting that Electoral College reformers ” focus on a select group of battleground states and get them to adopt ranked-choice voting—or, if they prefer, a conventional runoff—in presidential elections”:
The key is to focus… Continue reading
A Nightmare Electoral College Tie Scenario from Josh Marshall
TPM:
I was talking to one midwestern Democrat about this. And this person told me they figured it was pretty likely Pennsylvania and Michigan would return to the Democratic fold in 2020. They were much less certain about Wisconsin.… Continue reading
“Organizers pull the plug on proposal ditching electoral college in Ohio”
Cleveland Plain Dealer:
Organizers have aborted their attempt to change Ohio’s constitution to award the state’s presidential electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote, regardless of who wins Ohio.J. Corey Colombo, a Columbus elections attorney working for… Continue reading
“The Danger of the National Popular Vote Compact”
Norman Williams has this post at the Harvard Law Review blog.
“Suddenly, the Electoral College becomes a hot-button issue”
More on Who Is Behind Effort to Put a Popular Vote Measure for Electoral College on Ohio Ballot
Cincinnati Enquirer:
Columbus attorney Don McTigue, who submitted the proposed amendment, referred The Enquirer to Reed Hundt, CEO of Making Every Vote Count, a nonprofit that advocates electing the president through a national popular vote. Hundt, reached by phone… Continue reading
Shenanigans Going on with Ohio Ballot Measure Purportedly Aimed at Getting State to Assign Electoral College Votes to the Popular Vote Winner
John Koza, the force behind the National Popular Vote initiative writes:
Ohio news organizations have been trying to identify the mysterious backers of an initiative petition proposing an amendment to the Ohio Constitution requiring the Ohio legislature to guarantee… Continue reading
New Mexico Governor Signs Bill Adding State to National Popular Vote Compact
This brings states representing 189 electoral college votes into the agreement.
The Worst Defense of the Electoral College Yet Comes from Stephen Sachs at Volokh
I’ve seen lots of arguments for and against the Electoral College. Some are stronger than others.
But Stephen Sach’s idea that there could be such widespread fraud if we moved to a popular vote (rather than keeping fraud in a… Continue reading
“The Electoral College’s Real Problem: It’s Biased Toward the Big Battlegrounds”
Nate Cohn for NYT’s The Upshot.