Elizabeth MacDonough was appointed to the role in 2012 by Democrat Harry Reid of Nevada, Senate majority leader at the time.

Robert Alexander is a professor of political science at Bowling Green State University. He is the author of Representation and the Electoral College, published by Oxford University Press.

The Electoral College was also rooted in racism and gave rural states disproportionate power, said Aaron Scherb, senior director of legislative affairs at Common Cause, a grassroots organization ...

In 2020, the incredibly slow, needlessly complicated tallying of Electoral College votes left an opening for the defeated incumbent to launch an attempted coup d’état.

That strengthened the South in the electoral college because a state’s number of electors is based mostly on the size of its House delegation. But every state also gets an elector for each senator.

How does the Electoral College work? On ballots around the country, names like “Donald Trump” and “Kamala Harris” actually represent slates of electors — members of the Electoral College ...

Other nations took a lead from the U.S. creation of the Electoral College, creating their own versions. But they didn’t last, as Westminster College political scientist Joshua Holzer explained: ...

The Electoral College – explained Since its founding, the United States has used the Electoral College to elect the nation's president. A candidate needs 270 electoral votes to win the White House.

The Electoral College has received a lot of attention of late, leading many to question why it exists — and what it would take to remove it. In two of the six presidential elections conducted ...

Plus: Running the odds on Black voters and swing voters. A U.S. sovereign wealth fund? Closing messages.

The Electoral College should be revised to better represent the will of the people. Instead of winner-take-all, as in 48 states, the system should better represent the will of the people, as in ...

Five hundred and thirty-eight Electoral College votes will soon be divided between this year's presidential nominees, and for CNN’s John King, the countdown is on. The network’s chief national ...