“Electoral College meets to officially cast votes for president”
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Category Archives: electoral college
“Thirteen 2020 fake electors will cast real Electoral College votes for Trump on Tuesday”
CNN:
Thirteen Republicans who participated in the 2020 fake electors plot, including some who are facing criminal charges, will cast real Electoral College votes Tuesday for President-elect Donald Trump, as electors in the states finalize his victory.
These Republican… Continue reading
“Liberals: The Electoral College Is Not Your Enemy”
Simon Lazarus for TNR:
If the current constitutional structure frequently yielded electoral count victors who lost the national majority vote, then indeed, the Constitution should be amended, and liberals should support such an amendment. But that’s not what’s happened. In the… Continue reading
“Trump’s claim that Democrats are ‘fighting hard’ to keep the Electoral College sparks confusion”
The Independent:
President-elect Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform on Sunday night and declared that Democrats were “fighting hard” to make all future presidential elections based “exclusively” on the Electoral College.
The curious late-night post prompted many to… Continue reading
“Wisconsin Republicans sue to resolve conflict of when Electoral College votes must be cast for Trump”
That’s the headline from the Associated Press.
The Electoral Count Reform Act pushed back the date the electors meet by one day to allow an extra day for resolving disputes in the states, without moving too close to the… Continue reading
“The National Popular Vote (NPV) Proposal for U.S. Presidential Elections Undermines Election Integrity”
H/t to Sean Parnell for the new paper by Ron Rivest and Philip Stark:
National Popular Vote (NPV) Interstate Compact [Koza et al., 2024] attempts to provide direct presidential elections in the U.S. without a constitutional amendment, through a binding… Continue reading
“The Constitutional Underpinnings of the ECRA”
Larry Schwartzol at Lawfare.
“Republicans bring back fake electors in battlegrounds”
Politico:
Many of the people preparing to cast votes for Donald Trump in the Electoral College in 2024 were involved in his plot to subvert the election in 2020.
Some are even facing criminal charges for it.
Of the 93… Continue reading
The Time of Choosing Clause and its constraint on more outlandish Electoral College scenarios
There have been some doomsday scenarios about activities state legislature might engage in after Election Day. A little context (and a long blog post!) may help explain why state legislatures are not free to do whatever they’d like, contrary to… Continue reading
Some risks about overstating risks this election
In the midst of so many disaster scenarios and worries ahead of this election, it’s worth noting that the more that risks are overstated, the more legitimate those risks appear. It’s been disappointing to see many stories (too many to… Continue reading
“There Is No ‘Little Secret’ Speaker Power over the Electoral Count”
Andy Craig at Cato at Liberty:
The Speaker’s role during the electoral count is, in fact, nearly non-existent. There are no lawful mechanisms for the Speaker to derail the joint session of Congress without the backing of concurrent majorities in… Continue reading
“Is America Ready to Bid the Electoral College Farewell? | The Daily Show”
Watch here about the National Popular Vote proposal.
“‘We addressed it’: Why this election will be harder to stop on Jan. 6, 2025”
Senators on the record, from Burgess Everett and Elana Schor at Semafor:
The US and world are bracing for post-election chaos in Washington on Jan. 6, 2025, as Congress prepares to name a presidential winner. The reality is another… Continue reading
ELB 6:2 The United States Electoral College and Fair Elections (Fishkin, Hollis-Brusky, Muller)
Welcome to Season 6, Episode 2 of the ELB Podcast:
Why do we have the Electoral College and is its use justified today?
Why do Democrats and Republicans think differently about the Electoral College?
Does the Electoral College make it… Continue reading