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Jul 21 2020
Analysis
A definitive case against the Electoral College
Why the framers created the Electoral College — and why we need to get rid of it.
One of the biggest problems with American democracy is that it’s not democratic.
Two of the last five presidents were elected despite losing the popular vote, more than half the Senate is elected by roughly 18 percent of the population, and voting districts are increasingly gerrymandered in ways
Vox
Mar 15 2023
News
At Wellesley College, Students Vote to Admit Trans Men
Wellesley College proudly proclaims itself as a place for “women who will make a difference in the world.” It boasts a long line of celebrated alumnae, including Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright and Nora Ephron.
On Tuesday, its students supported a referendum that had polarized the campus and went straight to the heart of Wellesley’s identity as a women’s college.
The
New York Times (News)
May 26 2020
News
Should we Keep the Electoral College?
Upon its founding, Alexander Hamilton described the Electoral College by saying, “if the manner of it be not perfect, it is at least excellent.” Our Founding Fathers established the Electoral College as a compromise between congress selecting the president and a popular vote.
But when the outcome of the popular vote doesn’t align with the outcome of the Electoral College, as was the
The Thread
Feb 27 2023
News
Thousands protest in Mexico against cuts to electoral watchdog
Tens of thousands of people turned out across Mexico on Sunday to protest against legal changes passed this week to slash the electoral agency’s budget, fearing that it put the country’s hard-fought democracy at risk. Dressed in shirts, dresses and hats in pink and white, the colours of the electoral institute INE, protesters marched to the capital’s main square to hear speeches by a former
Financial Times
Feb 27 2023
News
Mexican protesters see electoral overhaul as a threat to democracy
Juan Manuel Martinez remembers the days when he would vote in Mexico’s elections with no confidence that they were being run fairly.
For decades, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, known as the PRI, remained in power by buying votes or stuffing ballot boxes. Election after election, the same story repeated itself.
“No election was clean, democracy didn’t exist, the government
Los Angeles Times
Aug 06 2022
Data
Majority of Americans continue to favor moving away from Electoral College
The Electoral College has played an outsize role in several recent U.S. elections, and a majority of Americans would welcome a change to the way presidents are elected.
Around six-in-ten U.S. adults (63%) say the way the president is elected should be changed so that the winner of the popular vote nationwide wins the presidency, while 35% favor keeping the current Electoral College
Pew Research Center
Mar 20 2023
News
Olivet College graduate accused of shooting school baseball player after game
A former Olivet College student has been charged with attempted murder and felony assault after he allegedly shot one of the school’s baseball players after a game, authorities and school officials said Sunday. Olivet College said in a statement Saturday, that the player, who has yet to be identified, was shot after he returned to the dugout to retrieve a forgotten item following a Friday
NBC News (Online)
Mar 15 2023
News
Wellesley College students vote to admit trans men and nonbinary applicants
Students at Wellesley College voted in a nonbinding election on Tuesday to approve expanding eligibility for admission to all nonbinary and transgender applicants.
The student body approved the referendum, which asked whether the school should shift its admission policy to allow nonbinary people who were assigned male at birth and trans men to apply to the school, a Wellesley College
The Hill
Jan 06 2021
Analysis
Questions and answers about the Electoral College challenges
Congress will convene for a joint session Wednesday to tally electoral votes from the 2020 presidential election in one of the last formalities before President-elect Joe Biden takes office on Jan. 20.
But the normally routine proceedings promise to be a tense affair this time around as dozens of GOP lawmakers have vowed to challenge the election results.
The Electoral College
The Hill
Jan 06 2021
Analysis
Electoral College objections in Congress: What to know
The House and Senate will convene at 1 p.m. Wednesday for a joint session of Congress to certify President-elect Joe Biden's electoral win, and a group of GOP lawmakers intends to raise objections to the results.
The traditional tally of the electoral results from each state is the final stage in the selection of an American president. It's normally a lackluster procedure, but
Fox News (Online News)