SF Chronicle: A national effort to bypass the Electoral College and pick the president by popular vote — which may or may not be constitutional — is picking up new support and moving closer to success.Governors in Colorado, New… Continue reading

538 has the latest on the National Popular Vote compact, focused on the Colorado governor’s likely signature on a new bill.

Jamelle Bouie for NYT Opinion.

Oh my: Speaking to the hosts of the WVOM morning show this week, former Governor Paul LePage lambasted a bill being considered by Maine’s legislature to join with other states to essentially bypass the Electoral College and ensure that… Continue reading

WaPo: Colorado is set to become the latest member of a group of states banding together to bypass the electoral college system.The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact — which already has 11 states and the District of Columbia on… Continue reading

KUOW reports. (via How Appealing.)

Ned Foley in Politico Magazine (based on his forthcoming Oxford UP book, Presidential Elections and Majority Rule): Americans have heard for years that the Electoral College is broken—just look at the presidential elections of 2000 and 2016, when the winner… Continue reading

Jerry Goldfeder in the NYLJ.

AP: A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit challenging the winner-take-all system Massachusetts uses to assign its Electoral College presidential votes, rejecting the argument that it violates the principle of “one person, one vote.” The case is one of… Continue reading

Patrick Valencia has written this article for the Harvard Journal on Legislation.

Roll Call: A group is suing two red states and two blue states to change the Electoral College system. Former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld, Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig and David Boies, who served as former Vice President Al Gore… Continue reading

Ed Zelinsky blogs. 

William Josephson has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: How to elect the President was the second most debated issue at the 1787 constitutional convention. The last moment Electoral College compromise between congressional election of the President… Continue reading