electoral college Archives - Independence Institute

How state legislatures can break the power of corrupt big-city politics in presidential elections -4th in a series 0
- January 28, 2021
District voting for presidential electors in [key swing] states would . . . isolate corruption to particular electoral districts;
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Don’t let them divert us from ensuring electoral integrity!—1st in a series 0
- January 22, 2021
I’ve been in and around politics for over 50 years. I know a diversion when I see one.
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The new mainstream media tactic: Keep ‘em ignorant 0
- November 24, 2020
The [Electoral College] has protected us against highly fractured results and purely regional candidates in almost every election since 1824.
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The Electoral College: The target of politicians who would make things worse 0
- May 14, 2020
If we were to cut the presidency down to constitutional size, it wouldn’t matter so much that on rare occasions the position’s occupant was not the popular vote winner.
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New article shows how amendments conventions and other “federal functions” are regulated 0
- April 21, 2020
“[A]nother mistake is that because an amendments convention executes a federal function, Congress can control it. But . . . the rules and protocols for carrying out federal functions come from the Constitution, not from Congress.”
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A defense of the Electoral College 0
- April 5, 2020
“… when Hamilton stated . . . that he believed electors would use “information and discernment,” that is not very good evidence that future electors did in fact use information and discernment. But it is quite good evidence that Hamilton and his readers believed the Constitution empowered electors to do so.”
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