[Bumping to the top] This is a very important conversation Monday: REGISTER NOW Pull up a (virtual) seat as a panel of nationally recognized legal scholars, political scientists, and experts in election administration, Electoral College procedures, and presidential succession grapples with the… Continue reading

Jeffrey Abramson has written this article for the Emory Law Journal Online.

William Josephson has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Myth of National Popular Vote Presidential Elections and the Reality of Elector Unit Rule Voting discusses in unprecedented depth if the proposed National Popular Vote Interstate Compact… Continue reading

This should be good: Join us for a lively and timely discussion about the Electoral College –its contentious history, shortcomings, and potential reform –with Ned Foley, Director of Election Law at OSU’s Moritz College of Law, and Jesse Wegman, … Continue reading

Sean’s post is about limits on state legislative power in relation to NPV, but the issue goes well beyond that in this period of crisis.

Tyler Creighton in the Boston University Law Review.

Josh Chafetz reviews Jesse Wegman’s new book, Let the People Pick the President.

WaPo: Justice Sonia Sotomayor will not participate in one of the two cases the Supreme Court will hear in April to decide whether the Constitution forbids states from dictating how members of the electoral college cast their votes for… Continue reading

Michael Morley has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Harvard Law and Policy Review). Here is the abstract: The National Popular Vote Compact requires member states to appoint presidential electors based on the outcome of the national popular vote in… Continue reading

AP: The winner-take-all system Texas and 47 other states use to assign Electoral College presidential votes is constitutional, a federal appeals court said Wednesday.A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans unanimously … Continue reading

Vinod Bakthavachalam and Reed Hundt NYT oped: The answer is that in this century the Electoral College system strongly encourages candidates of both parties, and particularly any Republican candidate, to ignore the national popular vote. That’s especially true for… Continue reading