Roll Call: A group is suing two red states and two blue states to change the Electoral College system. Former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld, Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig and David Boies, who served as former Vice President Al Gore… Continue reading

Ed Zelinsky blogs. 

William Josephson has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: How to elect the President was the second most debated issue at the 1787 constitutional convention. The last moment Electoral College compromise between congressional election of the President… Continue reading

AP: Connecticut’s General Assembly has voted to join a group of states that want to pool their Electoral College votes for the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote. The Senate on Saturday voted 21-14 to enter the National Popular… Continue reading

Politico: President Donald Trump on Thursday voiced support for doing away with the Electoral College for presidential elections in favor of a popular vote because the latter would be “much easier to win.” The president’s support for a popular-vote presidential… Continue reading

Derek Muller: David Boies is leading an effort to challenge the winner-take-all method that most states use when awarding presidential electors. There are different ways states might award electors (which I used to project alternative electoral outcomes in 2016). Brenden… Continue reading

Release: A coalition of law firms led by David Boies of Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, and The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) today announced the filing of four landmark lawsuits challenging the winner-take-all method states use to allocate… Continue reading

Ned Foley for USA Today: This point is different from the one about Hillary Clinton winning almost 3 million more votes nationally than Trump. That much-mentioned truth is irrelevant to how the Electoral College is supposed to work. It would… Continue reading

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Tara Ross is out with a new book-length defense of the electoral college, with the subhead: “How the Founders Plan Saves Our Country from Mob Rule.”

Here’s the paper behind the report I mentioned yesterday, finding that one out of every three presidential elections where the popular vote margin is within 3% will feature a mismatch between the popular vote and the electoral college.

Aaron Blake reminds Democrats that if the 2016 election had been up to a national popular vote, campaign strategies would have been very different.

A team at Covington has started a new organization – Making Every Vote Count — pressing for a national popular vote for President.  Sam Wang was on CNN this morning talking about some related new research, finding that one out… Continue reading

Two events with great lineups from a new group headed by Reed Hundt dedicated to passing the national popular vote. “Improving American Democracy” (Oct. 7 at Stanford, use link to RSVP). “The Need for Presidential Selection Refor… Continue reading