A key issue to understand about Electoral College is "it proportionately favors smaller states over larger states," says Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school a U.C. Berkley. It would take ...

After last fall’s election of La Plata County’s Board of County Commissioners, we read of some county neighbors complaining about the “undemocratic” method used to elect commissioners in our county.

Citizens and lawmakers periodically call for scrapping the Electoral College (often just after they have lost an election) in ...

The Electoral College is a historic relic in our constitutional system. It's basically never worked as intended. The original idea in the Constitution was to have state legislatures select a well ...

Congress has completed the count of electoral college votes, with Vice President Mike Pence declaring President-elect Joe Biden the winner early Thursday morning. Congress completed their count of ...

That system, the Electoral College, balances the competing interests of large states with those of smaller states. By allocating electors based on a state’s cumulative representation in the ...

A more difficult problem was how to structure the voting within the Electoral College. During the debates at the Constitutional Convention, some delegates argued that the diversity and dispersal ...