Tag: Electoral College

"We should elect the president the way we elect governors, senators, mayors, representatives, everybody else: Whoever gets the most votes wins."

Attempts to fix this have been made from time to time, but never garnered enough votes to mount a successful fix to this fundamental flaw.

Hamilton and the other founders were reassured that with this compromise system, neither public ignorance nor outside influence would affect the choice of a nation’s leader.

Immediately after the 2016 presidential election, many liberal circles were buzzing about how to prevent Donald Trump from taking office, especially after...

"The bill ensures that every vote, in every state, will matter in every presidential election."

"The idea of democracy is simple and obvious even to young kids on a playground—whoever gets the most votes should win."

"When you've got a government that works for the rich and it's not working nearly as well for anyone else, that's corruption, and we need to call it out plain and simple."

It’s not just Democrats that see the virtue in reforming presidential elections.

It turns out that many people who care about the environment never vote. One organization is working to change that.

If you want your state to end gerrymandering, you’re going to have to get actively involved, and demand it.