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A community portal about United States Electoral College with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The United States Electoral College is the official name of the group of Presidential Electors who are chosen every four years to cast the electoral vote and thereby elect the President and Vice President of the United States. It was established by Article Two, Section One of the United States Constitution, which provides for a quadrennial election of Presidential Electors in each state. The electoral process was modified in 1804 with the ratification of the 12th Amendment and again in 1961 with the ratification of the 23rd Amendment.
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BOISE – After Washington this year became the fifth state to endorse a big change in how the nation elects presidents – letting whoever wins the popular vote take the office – Idaho is poised to debate the same question. Nothing changes until enough states sign on to represent a majority of electoral votes; only about a quarter of them are on board so far. “We’re just waiting to see if there are additional states that decide to join in,” said...
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From spokesmanreview.com
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Several readers make a very good point I confess I had not fully considered: The electoral college. If you expand the House you give the House more electoral votes. As this reader points out:
Republicans would face a hard time ever electing a President, as the 2 electoral votes per Senator would be seriously diluted. A proportional increase in the Senate might mitigate this, but if you thought California's 56 or thereabouts EVs were...
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The Uniform Law Commission, which has existed since 1892, is weighing whether it should back a proposed state law that would tell presidential electors that they must vote for their party’s presidential and vice-presidential nominees, when those electors vote in December of presidential election years. The Commission held its first meeting on this proposal [...]
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From ballot-access.org
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Here’s an interesting tidbit to think about on Election Day: Using Polidata projections for the 2010 census, and electoral distribution from the 2004 presidential election, Republican states will grow (in both congressional seats and number of electors to the Electoral College) while Democrat-leaning states will shrink. As analyst and columnist Michael Barone has pointed out, [...]
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