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While the outcome remains uncertain, the Electoral College is working as designed. Each state ran its own election and now each is responsible for fairly counting its votes. Any disputes will be cont…

The Electoral College is a two-step democratic process that promotes political stability and provides representation to Americans outside of the big cities.

Some people bemoan the fact that not every state in every presidential election is a toss-up, or battleground. But that’s political reality down the ballot, too. And the cost of seeing fewer televisi…

Some questions make parents squirm. One that might come up between now and Election Day is: Where do presidential electors come from?

Prolific author and law professor Richard Epstein published a defense of the Electoral College last Saturday in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Resistance to the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) today comes from an unexpected corner: Washington Post columnist Charles Lane.

Gary Johnson says more Americans would vote Libertarian if they “felt” their votes would matter. No doubt this is true for any very small political party. But Johnson blames the Electoral College and…

Why does John Hickenlooper, locked in a tight race for U.S. Senate in Colorado, snub people who live in small towns and rural areas? Because he doesn’t need their votes. If he can get enough votes fr…

On this day in 1787, the Constitutional Convention approved and sent to the states for ratification the document that became the Constitution of the United States.

The Electoral College was ultimately chosen because it ensured the president would be independent of Congress and small states would have a voice.