Category Archives: electoral college

“Select Committee Subpoenas ‘Alternative Electors’ from Seven States”

January 28, 2022, 11:15 amelectoral collegeRick Hasen

Release: Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) today announced that, as part of its investigation into the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol and its causes, the Select Committee has issued subpoenas to 14 individuals who participated as… Continue reading

Matthew Seligman: “A Realistic Risk Assessment of ECA Manipulation in 2024”

January 26, 2022, 11:06 amelection subversion risk, electoral collegeRick Hasen

The following is a guest post from Matthew Seligman: Congress suddenly seems focused on reforming the Electoral Count Act as a fragile bipartisan consensus is emerging that the ECA is broken and must be fixed. Critical questions remain about… Continue reading

Robert Kuttner Comes Out Against Stand-Alone Electoral College Act Reform

January 24, 2022, 6:30 amelectoral collegeRick Hasen

Here at TAP.

My New One at Slate: “What Democrats Need From Mitch McConnell to Make an Election Reform Deal Worth It”

January 21, 2022, 7:43 amelection subversion risk, electoral collegeRick Hasen

I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: The debate over whether Democrats should pursue their large voting rights package or a narrower law aimed against election subversion became moot on Wednesday when Democrats could not muster up enough… Continue reading

What should happen to 2020’s renegade presidential electors?

January 12, 2022, 8:53 amelectoral collegeDerek Muller

The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the Capitol has been digging into the renegade electoral votes submitted by some Republicans in some states that President Joe Biden carried in 2020. POLITICO links to some PDFs of … Continue reading

“The Bad Deal Democrats Should Take; Electoral-count reform is a narrow fix, insufficient for the many problems in the voting system—but it’s better than nothing at all.”

January 9, 2022, 1:23 pmelection subversion risk, electoral collegeRick Hasen

David Graham for the Atlantic: Some ECA-reform advocates worry that even if Schumer was somehow able to get Manchin and Sinema to agree to sweeping reforms, including ECA updates, and pass them through the Senate on a party-line vote… Continue reading

“Fixing the Electoral Count Act is no substitute for real election reform”

January 6, 2022, 11:19 amelectoral collegeRick Hasen

Fred Wertheimer and Norm Eisen in WaPo: With the Senate finally scheduling action to address the national epidemic of voter suppression and election hijacking laws, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and others in his party have suddenly found… Continue reading

“Scoop: Bipartisan Senate group in talks about election reform measure”

January 6, 2022, 6:43 amelection subversion risk, electoral collegeRick Hasen

Axios: A new bipartisan Senate group is in early discussions about crafting an election reform measure, as the Democrats’ sweeping voting rights proposals continue to run into steep procedural hurdles.Driving the news: Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) convened a… Continue reading

Mike Parsons: “Counting on the Courts”

January 6, 2022, 6:30 amelection subversion risk, electoral collegeRick Hasen

The following is a guest post from Mike Parsons (Senior Legal Fellow at FairVote and Program Affiliate Scholar at NYU Law): Momentum to amend the Electoral Count Act is building across the ideological spectrum. And there is no… Continue reading

NPV effort in Michigan won’t affect 2024 election

December 16, 2021, 11:28 amelectoral collegeNed Foley

I’ve just been alerted to this: National Popular Vote compact won’t make Michigan 2022 ballot. Organizers may try again in 2024, according to the report, but pulling the plug on the effort to get on the ballot in 2022… Continue reading

“The Jan. 6 puzzle piece that’s going largely ignored”

December 16, 2021, 7:11 amchicanery, election subversion risk, electoral collegeRick Hasen

Politico: As Donald Trump and his allies squeezed then-Vice President Mike Pence to single-handedly stop Joe Biden’s presidency in the weeks ahead of Jan. 6, they used one particular tool that’s been largely ignored ever since.Rep. Louie Gohmert… Continue reading

Some Electoral College math

December 15, 2021, 6:26 pmelectoral collegeNed Foley

In a follow-up to my previous post, I thought I should detail some of the basic Electoral College arithmetic on my mind: Pennsylvania-specific scenario. Suppose the Electoral College results in 2024 are the same as in 2020 except for… Continue reading

Electoral College changes before 2024?

December 15, 2021, 9:25 amdirect democracy, electoral college, UncategorizedNed Foley

I don’t believe I’ve seen mentioned on ELB the effort to put the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact on the ballot next November in Michigan. As the Detroit Free Press reported a couple of weeks ago, supporters of the measure… Continue reading

Must-Read Ben Ginsberg: “Republicans in Congress Should Update the Electoral Count Act Before It’s Too Late”

December 5, 2021, 8:50 amelection subversion risk, electoral collegeRick Hasen

Great Ben Ginsberg piece in NRO: Donald Trump should want the Electoral Count Act of 1887 amended. And he should want it done even though his some of his Democratic opponents may want the same thing.Designed to govern Congress’s… Continue reading