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Sep 19 2023
News
3 fake electors want Georgia election subversion charges against them to be moved to federal court
ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyers for three Georgia Republicans, who falsely claimed that Donald Trump won the state and they were “duly elected and qualified” electors, are set to argue Wednesday that criminal charges against them should be moved from state to federal court. David Shafer, Shawn Still and Cathy Latham were among the 18 people indicted last month along with Trump on charges they
WDIO
Jan 06 2021
News
Republicans object to Electoral College certification
Republicans objected to certifying the Electoral College count on Wednesday in a final effort to overturn the 2020 election results.
Why it matters: President Trump and his allies have no other path to change the election and are relying on this last ditch effort that will ultimately confirm Joe Biden as the next president.
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas)
Axios
Dec 31 2020
Opinion
Trump’s Embarrassing Electoral College Hustle
President Trump’s last and worst shot at overturning the 2020 election will come on Jan. 6, as the new Congress meets in joint session to tally the votes from the Electoral College. Mr. Trump wants Republican lawmakers to lodge formal objections to Joe Biden’s electors, and this kamikaze mission already has a few volunteers.
Here’s what would happen next, at least according to the
Wall Street Journal (Opinion)
Aug 03 2020
Background
Do You Understand the Electoral College?
Do you understand what the Electoral College is? Or how it works? Or why America uses it to elect its presidents instead of just using a straight popular vote? Author, lawyer and Electoral College expert Tara Ross does, and she explains that to understand the Electoral College is to understand American democracy.
Prager University
Aug 03 2020
Top Argument
The Electoral College: Top 3 Pros and Cons
The debate over the continued use of the Electoral College resurfaced during the 2016 presidential election, when Donald Trump lost the general election to Hillary Clinton by over 2.8 million votes and won the Electoral College by 74 votes. The official general election results indicate that Trump received 304 Electoral College votes and 46.09% of the popular vote (62,984,825 votes), and
ProCon.org
Aug 03 2020
Opinion
Why We Need the Electoral College
Donald Trump’s election with fewer popular votes than Hillary Clinton has raised again the question of why the presidency is decided through an Electoral College and not a popular vote. Mr. Trump himself said in a recent interview said that a popular vote seems more sensible.
Many people who are currently calling for the abolition of the Electoral College, however, don’t realize the
RealClearPolitics
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
Sep 20 2023
News
'Sports Illustrated' Brand Extended To Resorts In College Sports Towns
Sports-happy college towns will soon have Sports Illustrated-themed resorts and lifestyle complexes, thanks to a collaboration between Travel & Leisure Co. and Sports Hospitality Ventures, the hotel and resorts licensee for the SI brand. The first college town resort will be in Tuscaloosa, the home of the University of Alabama. It will include a hotel, vacation ownership club, an SI fit
MediaPost
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
Aug 10 2023
News
Michigan’s fake GOP electors to be arraigned on state charges
(CNN) — Most of the 16 Michigan Republicans who served as fake electors in 2020 will be arraigned Thursday and are expected to plead not guilty to the first-of-their-kind felony charges. The group of Trump supporters were hit with state charges last month over their role in the former president’s campaign’s seven-state plan to subvert the Electoral College and overturn the 2020 election
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