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North Carolina Op-Ed Falsely Links Slavery and the Electoral College
July 15, 2020 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
An oft-repeated but false claim about the Electoral College is that it was created as part of a bargain to preserve slavery and bolster the political power of Southern states. A recent op-ed in the H…
Read More →Will Colorado sell its Electoral College voice to California?
July 1, 2020 by Trent England in Electoral College
Voters in Colorado will decide this November whether to enact or reject the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV). The campaign behind NPV, and most of its money, comes from California. So i…
Read More →Bad history on the Electoral College
June 10, 2020 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
One line of attack made by opponents of the Electoral College is that it is inherently racist, both in original intent and in application over the years. There’s not much dispute that the three-fifth…
Read More →“Dangerous gaps” in NPV Compact
June 9, 2020 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
It’s no stretch to call Vikram David Amar, who is the Dean and Iwan Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law, one of the “intellectual Godfathers” of the National Popu…
Read More →Debating the Importance of the Electoral College
May 18, 2020 by Harry Roth in Electoral College
Author Tara Ross and professor Bradley A. Smith are going head-to-head against New York Times Columnist Jamelle Bouie and professor Kate Shaw, in a debate on the “usefulness” of the Electoral College…
Read More →New book: “Why We Must Defend the Electoral College”
May 5, 2020 by Trent England in Electoral College
Why is the Electoral College in the Constitution? How does it work? And why worry about keeping it? I wrote “Why We Must Defend the Electoral College” to answer these questions. The system we use to …
Read More →Metropolitan Math is No Myth
April 29, 2020 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
In an opinion piece appearing last year at the site Market Watch, George C. Edwards III (a professor of political science at Texas A&M and author of Why the Electoral College is Bad for America) …
Read More →Certifiably Correct
April 21, 2020 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
In a few recent posts I’ve raised the point that if enacted, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPV) is going to face some serious problems being executed, in large part because of the lac…
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