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On Monday during a CNN Town Hall, Democratic Presidential Candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) called for the electoral college to be replaced by a national popular vote. (CNN)

The left argues that the electoral college is inherently undemocratic because it gives some votes more weight than others.

“That we even have to argue about whether a system in which candidates have

Last week, Nate Silver, the polling analyst, tweeted a chart illustrating the chances that Joe Biden would become president if he wins the most votes in November.

The “if” is probably unnecessary. It’s hard to find anyone who disputes that Mr. Biden will win the most votes. This isn’t a liberal’s fantasy. In a recent panel discussion among four veteran Republican campaign managers, one

While I have been unstinting in condemning efforts to bend the law beyond recognition to find a charge that will stick to Donald Trump, I have thus far mostly avoided commenting on the possible charges being contemplated in Georgia involving Trump’s efforts to get electors certified from a state he lost in 2020. We simply do not have a really clear fix at this point on exactly what legal

If you were looking for the perfect distillation of how dysfunctional the American system of electing the president is, it would be hard to top last week’s federal appeals court ruling allowing “electors” — the members of the Electoral College — to vote for whomever they want, rather than the candidate they were pledged to support.

“Wait,” you might say, “someone I’ve never even heard