Several changes to the electoral vote count process have been enacted since a violent mob of Trump supporters stormed the ...
The archaic vestige of a compromise with pro-slavery Southerners during the 18th century debate over the U.S. Constitution, the Electoral College can – and has, as recently as 2016 – thwarted ...
Some people have been calling for 20 years to get rid of the Electoral College and say it has outlived its era. That’s the focus of this edition of the Buckley Report. For the latest news ...
In 1969, the House overwhelmingly approved an amendment abolishing the Electoral College. It’s time for a robust debate about a popular vote amendment and whether it should strengthen voting rights, ...
Citizens and lawmakers periodically call for scrapping the Electoral College (often just after they have lost an election) in ...
A Republican congressman from Tennessee wants to amend the U.S. Constitution to allow Donald Trump to serve a third term.
After last fall’s election of La Plata County’s Board of County Commissioners, we read of some county neighbors complaining about the “undemocratic” method used to elect commissioners in our county.
Then, on Dec. 17, 2024, the 538 members of the Electoral College cast their votes to officially ... return to their separate chambers to begin debate on the claim. Each chamber must agree to ...
Congress completed their count of electoral college votes early Thursday morning ... of the voters or standing with President Trump. Debate was suspended Wednesday afternoon after a pro-Trump ...
It is January 6 again and that means federal lawmakers will count the Electoral College votes ... with the House and Senate leaving to debate, in separate spaces, for a maximum of two hours.
With the expiration of the 118th Congress this month, Senators Durbin, Schatz, and Welch’s constitutional amendment “to abolish the Electoral College” expired. It aimed “to provide for the direct ...
2 After long and serious debate, they arrived at an intentional ... That system, the Electoral College, balances the competing interests of large states with those of smaller states.