The latest takedown of the Electoral College is here
Columnist Eric Black recommends a YouTube video of U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin destroying the Electoral College.
Electoral College
The popular vote loser has won the U.S. presidency five times
There are various proposals to modify the system for electing presidents, including some that would not require constitutional amendments, such as the “National Popular Vote” compact.
Electoral College problems are deep, permanent — and getting worse
The Electoral College system is a terrible system. People are defending it at the moment with bad logic and bad history. If you think I am saying this now only because of Trump, you are wrong.
Will electors try to deny Trump the presidency? Call me skeptical.
Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig has said that at least 20 electors have agreed to vote for someone other than Trump, and he believes that enough others are considering the idea to get the total up to 30.
‘Faithless electors’: What will happen if more decide not to vote for Trump?
A high-powered legal team is working hard to resurrect the right of electors to use their own judgment, and they are in talks with several who want an alternative to voting for Donald Trump.
Why the two Nates still favor Clinton to win, despite tightening polls
Of course, you know, Hillary Clinton is favored by Nate Silver and Nate Cohn mostly, if not completely, because of the Electoral College factor.
A new Virginia plan for awarding electoral votes to Republicans
How to turn a minority of popular votes into a majority of electoral votes.
How to work around the Electoral College — without amending the Constitution
States could pass laws pledging that they will award all of their electoral votes to whichever candidate wins the national popular vote.
In defense of the Electoral College system … and some responses
Here’s what defenders of the system tend to believe.
Picking a president: dangers — and weird outcomes — of the Electoral College
Our odd system has resulted in at least one election disaster and several strange results.
Why the Constitution’s Framers didn’t want us to directly elect the president
Their motives were more complicated than their aristocratic mistrust of the mob.
10 reasons why the Electoral College is a problem
Here’s a quick list of the problems and potential problems.
Our Electoral College system is weird — and not in a good way
The Electoral College system distorts every presidential campaign.
If you’re sick of gridlock, blame the Constitution
At the risk of committing sacrilege, this series traces many of our current problems to the system devised by the Framers of the Constitution.
