Tuesday, the presidential electors will be gathering to cast their electoral votes, formalizing President-elect Donald Trump's victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. It's largely a ceremonial vote, the next step after the presidential election. When Americans cast their ...
Congress is required by law to count the electoral votes on Jan. 6 after each presidential election. However, the datehas been temporarily changed by lawwhen Jan. 6 fell on a weekend. In 2013, Congress affirmed that President Barack Obama won the election on Jan. 4, rather than on Jan....
“It’s not so much the candidates as it is the anti-democratic Electoral College,” he said. “… It’s frustrating that certain voters’ votes count for more, and they discount and discredit the votes of more urban, more people of color voters.” Campaigns visit...
Éamon Ó Cuív previously dropped the Ó in his surname for electoral purposes. Research published by UCD following the 2011 general election found being first on the ballot paper is worth 544 first preference votes in an average constituency, or 1.27 per cent of the...
Electoral College votes. Of course this suit will eventually be settled by the Supreme Court. Many people feel that the Supreme Court ruling will be a close due to the swing vote of Justice Kennedy. By looking at Kennedy’s prior positions, it seems very likely he will rule that Obamacare...
any litigation related to votes, recounts or ballot certification must be resolved by December 16 so the electors can do their job. If no candidate achieves 270 electoral votes, the US House of Representatives is tasked with choosing the next president. Inauguration Day follows on...
The exceptions to this rule areNebraska and Maine. In these two states, the top candidate receives two electoral votes (one for each Senator) while the remaining electoral votes are split between congressional districts. Unlike the winner-takes-all mentality of the other states, this makes it po...
After a contentious presidential election that is being disputed through the courts, news outlets this weekend called the race for former Vice President Joe Biden, saying he has more than enough electoral votes to secure a win over President Donald Trump. ...
Empirically, our findings place boundaries on the conditions under which ideologically “polarized politicians can represent citizens best” (Ahler Acknowledgments For helpful comments on earlier versions of this work we thank Doug Ahler, Peter Aronow, Deborah Beim, David Broockman, Allan Dafoe, John...
How many electoral votes does each state have? Electors are allocated based on how many representatives a state has in the House of Representatives, plus its two senators. The District of Columbia gets three, despite the fact that the home to Congress has no vote in Congress. Cali...