Is it time to abolish the electoral college? How should it be replaced?

It's time to abolish the Electoral College - Brookings Institution

In most elections, the Electoral College has operated smoothly. State voters have cast their ballots and the presidential candidate with the most votes in a ...

Should We Abolish the Electoral College? - STANFORD magazine

Yes. By Jack Rakove, the William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies and a professor of political science. In this extraordinarily strange ...

ABA Legal Fact Check: Can the Electoral College be abolished?

Election season brings a renewed focus on the Electoral College, which ultimately picks the U.S. president, including questioning whether the practice ...

Eliminating Electoral College favored by majority of Americans

63% of U.S. adults say the way the president is elected should be changed so that the winner of the popular vote nationwide wins the ...

How to Finally Abolish the Electoral College - POLITICO

If Trump wins the popular vote and loses the election, it could fuel a new bipartisan movement for reform.

Abolishing the Electoral College Might Not Be As Hard As You Think

In 2020, for example, six million Californians voted for former President Trump, the most votes a Republican has ever received in any state in ...

It's Time to Abolish the Electoral College | The Loyola Phoenix

The 2024 presidential election between former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden could come down to a few electoral votes in a ...

How to get rid of the Electoral College - Brookings Institution

In the 20 th century there were 25 presidential elections and none of them resulted in an Electoral College winner who lost the popular vote.

OPINION It's time to abolish the electoral college - Windy City Times

In the 2020 election, Biden received the largest popular vote of any candidate in U.S. history, defeating Trump by over 7 million votes. How did ...

Outgrowing the Electoral College

James McCann, political science professor at Purdue. “Smaller states are overrepresented, and states that aren't “swing states” (like Indiana) ...

The Current Threat | The Heritage Foundation

Changing or eliminating the Electoral College can be accomplished only by an amendment to the Constitution, which requires the consent of two-thirds of ...

The Electoral College debate, explained : NPR

“When voters cast their ballots for a candidate for president of the United States, they are actually voting for the presidential electors who ...

No matter who wins, it's time to get rid of the electoral college

Before today's election, 9.7 million Texans had already voted — 108 percent of total ballots cast there in the last presidential election. In ...

Should the Electoral College be Abolished?

Jefferson lost the election of. 1796 by three electoral votes. In the 1800 election, there was a tie because the vote for president and vice-president had not ...

Should we abolish the Electoral College? - Podcast

Kennedy School of Government. James Ceaser is Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, and a member of The National Constitution Center's Coalition ...

What would it realistically take for the US to abolish the Electoral ...

348 votes, 830 comments. I don't mean in terms of what's literally required (a Constitutional amendment)- I mean in terms of what could ...

Time to abolish Electoral College - Smoky Mountain News

To the Editor: In this country we don't vote for a president. There is an intermediary called an elector whom we vote for when we vote for a ...

Is It Time To Abolish The Electoral College? - YouTube

Did you know that the U.S. is one of the few democracies in the world that doesn't elect its president by some form of popular vote?

Debating the Electoral College

For others, it's a relic enabling a tyranny of the minority. As a compromise between electing the president by popular vote or letting Congress ...

Why We Should Abolish the Electoral College - The New York Times

LET THE PEOPLE PICK THE PRESIDENT The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College By Jesse Wegman. It's hard to imagine a political ...