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United States Electoral College
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... [more]
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.
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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The Uniform Law Commission, which has existed since 1892, is an institution which writes model proposed laws, and suggests its ideas to state legislatures. This year the Uniform Law Commission has been working on a model state law that would force presidential electors to vote for their own party’s nominee for president, when those [...]
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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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From online.worldmag.com
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A group pushing to shake up how America elects the president has added a lobbyist in Idaho to push legislation that, had it been in effect in 2008, would have given the state's four Electoral College votes to Democrat Barack Obama. National Popular Vote aims to dump the existing system for a de facto national popular election, where states give all their Electoral College votes to the national winner, not the candidate who wins the state, as...
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From cbs4denver.com
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