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There are two bad things about our electoral college system: It’s possible for the major party candidate who’s least favored by the nation’s voters to be elected president, as we’ve seen.
Today, the Electoral College consists of 538 electors. As a result, a majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. Without the Electoral College, a candidate for president ...
Carolyn R. Dupont is a historian and professor at Eastern Kentucky University and the author of “Distorting Democracy: The Forgotten History of the Electoral College — and Why it Matters Today.”
The US’s Electoral College system is now functioning far from how its creators originally intended, Gustaf Kilander writes. In the most powerful democracy in the world, two of its last four ...
The margin of victory in a presidential election is the difference between the number of Electoral College votes garnered by the candidate with an absolute majority of electoral votes (since 1964, it has been 270 out of 538) and the number received by the second place candidate (currently in the range of 2 to 538, a margin of one vote is only possible with an odd total number of electors or a ...
Electoral college undermines democracy, say critics, who call for its abolition to ensure voters’ voices are heard and their votes count. From our readers:
The Electoral College was officially selected as the means of electing president towards the end of the Constitutional Convention, due to pressure from slave states wanting to increase their voting power, since they could count slaves as 3/5 of a person when allocating electors, and by small states who increased their power given the minimum of ...
But in 2016 he won in the electoral college with slim majorities in several toss-up states. That is the only way he can win the looming election, a contest all the polls show is too close to call.