Category Archives: electoral college
“RI Assembly passes National Popular Vote bill”
“Legislators Ready to Adopt Popular Vote”
News from Rhode Island.
“National Popular Vote Plan Poised to Pass Halfway Mark with New Win”
This item appears at FairVote.
“The Contemporary Presidency: How the 2012 Presidential Election Has Strengthened the Movement for the National Popular Vote Plan”
Rob Richie and Andrea Levien have written this article for Presidential Studies Quarterly. Here is the abstract:
The United States has reached an unprecedented level of inequality in presidential elections. In 2012, only 10 states drew the major party presidential… Continue reading
“Promoting Democracy While Preserving Federalism: The Electoral College, the National Popular Vote, and the Federal District Popular Vote Allocation Alternative”
Geoffrey Calderaro has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
The winner-take-all method of allocating Electoral College votes has led to a bifurcated nation in which presidential candidates actively campaign in highly contested “swing states” and virtually ignore… Continue reading
“Reform Wars: The Two Different Projects to Fix the Electoral College”
“FairVote Maps the 2012 Presidential Campaign”
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“Immigration reform could be bonanza for Democrats”
Politico: “The immigration proposal pending in Congress would transform the nation’s political landscape for a generation or more — pumping as many as 11 million new Hispanic voters into the electorate a decade from now in ways that, if… Continue reading
“A national popular vote would make every vote for president count”
Retired Oregon Chief Justice Paul de Muniz has written this oped.
“Eric Holder slams electoral vote tinkering”
Republican electoral vote tinkering, that is.
Fairvote Takes on Adam Liptak on Small States and the Electoral College
“(Unpersuasive) Challenges to the National Popular Vote Plan: Part One in a Series of Columns”
“2013 Edition of Every Vote Equal: The case for the National Popular Vote Plan”
FairVote: “This new edition features an expanded section addressing myths about the Electoral College and the National Popular Vote, with a wide-ranging information about recounts, the effects of extreme weather on elections, out-of-state presidential electors, and much, much more.… Continue reading