Tag: Electoral College
Improve democracy: Close the college
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.
Who invented the Electoral College?
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.
What if we made the electoral college moot?
Immediately after the 2016 presidential election, many liberal circles were buzzing about how to prevent Donald Trump from taking office, especially after...
Elect president by popular vote: Maine joins movement to give Electoral...
"The bill ensures that every vote, in every state, will matter in every presidential election."
Merkley Senate bill would abolish ‘undemocratic’ electoral college
"The idea of democracy is simple and obvious even to young kids on a playground—whoever gets the most votes should win."
To ensure every vote counts, Elizabeth Warren says amend the Constitution...
"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."
Good-Bye Electoral College? Popular vote movement gaining steam
It’s not just Democrats that see the virtue in reforming presidential elections.
New green strategy: Change the electorate, not the election
It turns out that many people who care about the environment never vote. One organization is working to change that.
How to end partisan gerrymandering
If you want your state to end gerrymandering, you’re going to have to get actively involved, and demand it.
How to make the Electoral College irrelevant
The effort is known as the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
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Three tons of fascism with a bull bar
Fuming at the rest of us, Democracy, and the Earth.
Nancy Pelosi Could Get Us All Killed
“A single spark could ignite this combustible situation into a crisis that escalates to military conflict. Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan could provide it.”
EPA finds 23 commercial sterilizer facilities across the country above agency’s cancer-risk rate
Ethylene oxide is known to cause cancer when people within close proximity to sterilizer facilities breathe the gas in over the course of many years.
This American for-profit healthcare system would just as soon kill you as look at...
To this system, it doesn't matter whether a person lives or dies as long as it gets paid. That's why our healthcare costs are so high, even though our life expectancy is so low.
‘Alarming’: nearly 1/3 in US worry about violence, intimidation at polls
"The fear people are experiencing—especially Black people, Hispanic people, and young people—is a form of voter suppression that needs to be addressed before the election," said one expert.