New analyses of the 2024 election confirm that for all the talk of alienated Americans, voter participation remains high.

Mark Bohnhorst has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Recent scholarship argues that Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment protects the people’s right to elect presidential electors.

Our presidential election process is broken. In five elections winners received less than 50 percent of the popular vote. In ...

Functionally, the Electoral College bugaboo serves as a self-serving ... have lost the electoral count a mere five times—in 1824, 1876, 1888, 2000, and 2016. In the same vein, if the current ...

Hayes against Samuel Tilden in 1876 and John Quincy Adams against Andrew Jackson in 1824. Trump and Clinton's overall Electoral College tallies were slightly reduced in 2016 as a result of a ...

The presidents who won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote 1824: John Quincy Adams won the election after a contentious four-man race for the White House ended without a majority.

Though Democratic candidate Kamala Harris picked up the state’s 19 Electoral College votes ... s popular and electoral votes going back to 1824, which was the first opposed race voted on ...

This has only happened once, in 1824, when four candidates split the electoral college vote, denying any one of them a majority. Given the current dominance of the Republican and Democratic ...