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The committee on Election Law in the New Hampshire House of Representatives met yesterday afternoon to consider the National Popular Vote interstate compact.

It’s a line used often by critics of the Electoral College: no other country would let the candidate with fewer raw votes win the election! It’s also wrong.

The Electoral College pushes presidential candidates to build large national coalitions instead of focusing on their strongest regions and constituencies. 

Save Our States, a non-partisan nonprofit, responded to critics who allege the Electoral College is racist. In a soon to be released documentary, “Safeguard: An Electoral College Story,” the group sh…

Because of the Electoral College, no big state or city can control the president.

A main argument by advocates for the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) is that the Electoral College distorts policy decisions made in the White House. According to this theory, incumben…

Vernon Jordan, a prominent civil rights leader who was executive director of the National Urban League, wrote several articles defending the Electoral College and testified in front of Congress in 19…

A charge often leveled against the Electoral College is that it’s unfair when campaigns focus on “swing states.” But in every election, some voters and communities get more attention than others. “Sa…

What every other democratic country in the world has really figured out is that democracy is more than simply achieving nationwide vote pluralities or majorities and calling it a day.