July 3rd, 2009
Matt Sledge
The American public at large is becoming increasingly sophisticated in its understanding of the Electoral College, especially with the debut of websites like FiveThirtyEight.com. The winner-take-all Electoral College system, we’ve come to realize, is responsible for much of the slice-and-dice demographic targeting used in modern presidential campaign. During the campaign season we are spoken to [...]
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July 2nd, 2009
Matt Sledge
Seems like someone, somewhere, within the depths of the Federal bureaucracy committed an Electoral College fail–and I’m not talking about the “wrong winner” elections of 1876, 1888, and 2000.
The federal agency the Election Assistance Commission has an Overview of the Electoral College available for download on its website. You might expect an unexceptionable, just-the-facts-ma’am explanation, [...]
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June 24th, 2009
Rob Richie
The Delaware House of Representatives today handily passed the National Popular Vote plan by 23-12 with both Democratic and Republican legislators joining to establish elections where every vote is equal and the candidate with the most votes wins.
Of our nation’s 99 state legislative chambers, 29 have passed the NPV plan in 18 states. It is [...]
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June 22nd, 2009
Ali Meyer
The New York Times recently published an editorial called “How to Trust Electronic Voting,” which argued that Congress should ban paperless electronic voting in all federal elections.
Although the editorials in the New York Times are not always aligned with my personal views, this particular one is welcome. The editorial centers on Representative Holt’s proposed bill, [...]
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