To the editor: I fully agree with George Skelton’s views on the electoral college. In 1989, as a newly elected member of the Democratic National Committee from California, I submitted a resolution ...

Did you know that the method for counting votes in a presidential election is different than the way votes are counted in state and local elections? We take for granted that the candidate that gets ...

The next president of the United States may, again, be the candidate with the fewest popular votes. This has happened only six times in U.S. history (1800, 1824, 1876, 1888, 2000 and 2016), but twice ...

Every presidential election cycle, Americans cast their votes for candidates who align with their values and priorities. However, the outcome is ultimately determined by the 237-year-old Electoral ...

With Election Day approaching, the race for the presidency is remarkably close, often characterized as a toss-up. General election polls, regardless of whether Vice President Kamala Harris or former ...

Some political experts have been speculating that Donald Trump might win the popular vote in 2024 yet lose in the Electoral College, as Hillary Clinton did in 2016 and Al Gore in 2000 (and Grover ...

It’s still well under the radar, but the movement to circumvent the Electoral College gained ground this week. On Sunday, Jared Polis, governor of Colorado, said he would sign a bill to join the ...

If it is wrong to reapportion the popular vote under the Electoral College, as some critics claim, then how does it suddenly become right to reapportion the popular vote under a national compact? It ...

The United States is the only democracy in the world where a presidential candidate can get the most popular votes and still lose the election. Thanks to the Electoral College, that has happened five ...

Nebraska Republicans are pushing for a crucial change to the way the state allocates its Electoral College votes, advocating for a winner-takes-all system to avoid any uncertainty ahead of the ...