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

Listen to Texas Public Radio: The Electoral College has the ultimate decision-making power when choosing the next president and members are supposed to — and in some states required to — vote for the winner of their state’s popular vote.… Continue reading

The Court’s order granting and consolidating the two cases is here. From my earlier Slate piece on these cases: As Lessig explained to me, the Supreme Court “should have the opportunity to reflect on the question without it determining… Continue reading

The latest issue of The Canvass leads off with a primer on some of the policy options for choosing electors (and the pending litigation on whether the choices of “faithless electors” can be punished or superseded).

You can find the brief (Jim Bopp counsel of record) here.

It was a great conference, and you can watch these videos: Introductory Remarks & Panel I: The Electoral College and Majority Rule: Past, Present, and FuturePanel II: Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? A DiscussionKeynote … Continue reading

Harvard Gazette: With the 2020 race for the White House in full swing, speakers at a Harvard panel on Saturday sharply differed on whether an interstate compact to effectively disable the Electoral College and move to a national popular vote… Continue reading

Colorado has filed this cert petition in the faithless elector case, making it the second case raising the issue to reach the Supreme Court within a month. (Here is my coverage of the Washington state case, and my earlier… Continue reading

Derek Muller blogs.

You will be able to find the webcast at this link on Saturday. Here is the agenda: Friday, October 18th (5:15 PM – 6:45 PM)5:15 PM     Welcome ReceptionSaturday, October 19th (9:00 AM – 5:30 PM)A light, continental breakfast will be… Continue reading