An Electoral College Workaround

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tiigoaOm9pA 

 

Why the Next President Could Finally Be Elected by the Popular Vote

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jx0ZnrOrQeU

US edges closer to popular vote deciding winner of presidential elections

Under the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, states would assign their presidential electors to the winner of the popular vote, regardless of the results within the state. The compact takes effect when states representing a majority of electoral votes – 270 of 538 – pass the legislation and thus would determine the winner of the presidential contest. With Virginia, the compact now has 222 electors...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/14/majority-vote-for-president-us-constitution

 

BREAKING: Surprise Trump post STUNS his own party about electoral college

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G-rCQTx7AI

Two men have re-engineered the US electoral system in favor of Republicans

"…Jankowski pioneered Redmap, short for the Redistricting Majority Project. That 2010 strategy, coordinated when he worked at the Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC), flipped state legislative chambers in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Alabama, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Indiana, Tennessee and several other states just ahead of the decennial redistricting. Then, with complete control of those processes, as well in Florida, Georgia, Texas and elsewhere, the RSLC helped draw some of the most extreme partisan gerrymanders in history, locking in huge Republican advantages in state legislatures and congressional delegations…" 

Leonard Leo is the other.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/04/electoral-college-map-gerrymandering

How Minority Rule Threatens Democracy (Terry Gross; Fresh Air podcast)

It's a fundamental tension in a democracy: How do you have majority rule in a way that also protects minority rights? Journalist Ari Berman says the Founding Fathers struggled with that question back in 1787 — except, for them, white male landowners were the minority in need of protection.

"Most of the founders were skeptical of the public's ability to elect the president directly," Berman says. "So they created this very complicated situation in which electors would elect the president instead of the people electing the president directly."

In his new book, Minority Rule, Berman connects the debates and compromises of the country's founders to contemporary politics. He says the founding fathers created a system that concentrated power in the hands of the elite and that today, institutions like the Electoral College and the Senate — designed as a check against the power of the majority — are having much the same effect.
Interview: 

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/22/1246297603/ari-berman-minority-rule-electoral-college

🚨 MAJOR news on REPLACING Electoral College

Marc Elias discusses Maine advancing the state's adoption of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P711fO4w9B8

"National Popular Vote Compact" SURGES into spotlight

Learn what this means.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSOXJGs9ROk

Voter Concerns Over Abortion Are Shattering Trump's Electoral College Edge

So while many national polls are showing the 2024 race virtually tied between Biden and Trump — should the two men win their respective party nominations — Democrats have made headway in cutting into any GOP advantages in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. All three states were won by Trump in 2016 but flipped to Biden in 2020, and they are essential to the president's calculus for winning reelection next year. 

Trump's 2016 wins in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin were fueled by strong support among white-working class voters, many of whom had defected from previously backing Democratic presidential candidates. But with Democrats not collapsing with white voters in those states either last year or in recent statewide polling, Trump's Electoral College edge may either be severely curtailed or obliterated by the time the 2024 election rolls around...

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-biden-abortion-democracy-electoral-college-advantage-2024-election-polls-2023-9

Opinion | Beware: The Supreme Court Is Laying Groundwork to Pre-Rig the 2024 Election | Thom Hartmann

This scenario isn't just plausible: it’s probable. GOP-controlled states are already changing their state laws to allow for it, regardless of how their people vote.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/01/beware-supreme-court-laying-groundwork-pre-rig-2024-election

House Republicans who challenged Biden's win are losing lots of corporate cash | Reuters

By contrast, corporate donations are up about 10% to House Republicans who voted to certify President Joe Biden's victory over Trump...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-donations-insight-idUSKCN2LD0XS

Enrique Tarrio, who led the Proud Boys, is arrested over the U.S. Capitol attack : NPR

Although Tarrio is not accused of physically taking part in the breach of the Capitol – or even being in Washington D.C. at the time – the Justice Department said Tarrio "conspired to corruptly obstruct, influence, and impede an official proceeding, the certification of the Electoral College vote."…

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/08/1085201623/enrique-tarrio-proud-boys-arrested-indicted-jan-6

See the 1960 Electoral College certificates that the false Trump electors say justify their gambit - POLITICO

…Their explanation relied heavily on the 1960 election between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, who was vice president at the time...

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/07/1960-electoral-college-certificates-false-trump-electors-00006186

A writer who predicted Trump's first coup attempt warns of an obscure legal doctrine he may exploit next time - Raw Story - Celebrating 17 Years of Independent Journalism

…Republicans are promoting an "independent state legislature" doctrine, which holds that statehouses have "plenary," or exclusive, control of the rules for choosing presidential electors. Taken to its logical conclusion, it could provide a legal basis for any state legislature to throw out an election result it dislikes and appoint its preferred electors instead.
...
The question could arise, and Barrett's vote could become decisive, if Trump again asks a Republican-controlled legislature to set aside a Democratic victory at the polls. Any such legislature would be able to point to multiple actions during the election that it had not specifically authorized. To repeat, that is the norm for how elections are carried out today. Discretionary procedures are baked into the cake. A Supreme Court friendly to the doctrine of independent state legislatures would have a range of remedies available to it; the justices might, for instance, simply disqualify the portion of the votes that were cast through "unauthorized" procedures. But one of those remedies would be the nuclear option: throwing out the vote altogether and allowing the state legislature to appoint electors of its choosing…
https://www.rawstory.com/a-writer-who-predicted-trump-s-first-coup-attempt-warns-of-an-obscure-legal-doctrine-he-may-exploit-next-time/

SCOTUS News! Trump's Taxes, Affirmative Action, and Title X (Opening Arguments podcast OA468)

Normally we're bracing ourselves every time there's SCOTUS news, but this time there's actually some good! Cy Vance HAS TRUMP'S TAX RETURNS. Ok that's pretty much the end of the unambiguously good news. But listen in as Andrew gives us the expert analysis on the anti-affirmative action case and the Title X case!

Before that, we talk about what elections actually would have looked like under Lessig's proportional system from last episode. The results are very fascinating! Yay spreadsheets! We finish off with a quick answer to the question, "could the Senate have voted anonymously on impeachment?"
Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-qwv63-d3ad612

Demolishing the Electoral College, with Lawrence Lessig (Opening Arguments podcast OA467)

Harvard Law Professor and activist Lawrence Lessig joins us to talk about his ongoing efforts to get rid of the Electoral College. It's a war being fought on multiple fronts, but Professor Lessig's current effort is to force states to assign delegates proportionally. The all or nothing system we have now is not actually written into the Constitution. Listen in for the full breakdown!

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-rxi3d-d320845

How to rig an America - The Washington Post

...Republicans are trying to game the system — to game a system that's already often rigged to their advantage...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/29/how-rig-an-america/

Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz face mounting calls to resign from the Senate over push to overturn election - Vox

"We're done with the drama. Done with the opportunism. Done with the cynical scheming that has now cost American lives," the editorial concludes. "Resign, Mr. Cruz, and deliver Texas from the shame of calling you our senator."

https://www.vox.com/2021/1/9/22222134/hawley-and-cruz-calls-to-resign-overturn-election

Hey, Republicans Who Supported This President: Are We Great Again Yet? -...

After the unprecedented assault on democracy that took place in the Capitol Building today, Stephen Colbert kicks off his LIVE monologue with a message for cowardly Republican lawmakers who for five years have coddled the president's fascist rhetoric: there will be a terrible price to pay.
https://youtu.be/JpUxQyLCBbk

Ted Cruz’s electoral vote speech will live in infamy - The Washington Post

...All of this, from start to finish, is dishonest opportunism. Trump — and through omission, Cruz — misled the public in service of their own power...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/06/ted-cruzs-electoral-vote-speech-will-live-infamy/