Download or read book Proposals for Presidential Election Reform written by Maureen Stone and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Popular Vote (NPV) initiative proposes an agreement among the states, an interstate compact that would effectively achieve direct popular election of the President and Vice President without a constitutional amendment. This book monitors the NPV's progress in the states and identifies and provides an analysis of further developments as warranted. When Americans vote for President and Vice President, they are actually choosing presidential electors, known collectively as the Electoral College. It is these officials who choose the President and Vice President of the United States. The complex elements comprising the Electoral College system are responsible for one of the most important processes of the American political and constitutional system: election of the President and Vice President. A failure to elect, or worse, the choice of a chief executive whose legitimacy might be open to question, could precipitate a profound constitutional crisis that would require prompt, judicious, and well-informed action by Congress. This book discusses the contemporary issues for Congress and how the Electoral College works in contemporary presidential elections.
Download or read book Electoral College Reform written by Thomas H. Neale and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: (1) Intro.; (2) Competing Approaches: Direct Popular Election v. Electoral College Reform; (3) Direct Popular Election: Pro and Con; (4) Electoral College Reform: Pro and Con; (5) Electoral College Amendments Proposed in the 111th Congress; (6) Contemporary Activity in the States; (7) 2004: Colorado Amendment 36; (8) 2007-2008: The Presidential Reform Act (California Counts); (9) 2006-Present: National Popular Vote -- Direct Popular Election Through an Interstate Compact; Origins; The Plan; National Popular Vote, Inc.; Action in the State Legislatures; States That Have Approved NPV; National Popular Vote; (10) Prospects for Change -- An Analysis; (11) State Action -- A Viable Reform Alternative?; (12) Concluding Observations.
Download or read book Electoral College Reform written by Congressional Research Congressional Research Service and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The electoral college method of electing the President and Vice President was established in Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution, as revised by the Twelfth Amendment. It provides for election of the President and Vice President by electors who are themselves elected by the voters. A majority of 270 of 538 electoral votes is necessary to win. For further information on the electoral college system's operations, see CRS Report RL32611, The Electoral College: How It Works in Contemporary Presidential Elections, by Thomas H. Neale. The electoral college has been the subject of reform proposals since 1800. Constitutional and structural criticisms have centered on several of its features: it is not fully democratic, providing indirect election of the President; it can lead to the election of candidates who win the electoral college but fewer popular votes than their opponents or to contingent election in Congress if no candidate wins an electoral college majority; it results in electoral vote under- and over-representation between censuses; and that "faithless" electors can vote against the people's express choice. Legislative and political criticisms include the general ticket system, currently used in all states except Maine and Nebraska, which is said to disenfranchise voters who prefer the losing candidates in the states; various asserted "biases" that are alleged to favor different states and groups; and the electoral college "lock," which was once claimed to provide an advantage to Republican candidates, but is now said to favor Democrats. Electoral college reform options include the following: end it, mend it, or leave it alone. Proposals to end the electoral college almost always propose direct popular election, with the candidates winning the most popular votes nationwide elected. Almost all reform proposals would eliminate electors and award electoral votes directly by one of several methods: the general ticket system; the district system that awards electoral votes on a congressional-district and statewide-vote basis; and the proportional system that awards state electoral votes in proportion to the percentage of popular votes gained by each candidate. Despite more than 30 years of legislative activity from the 1940s through the late 1970s, proposed amendments never managed to win the constitutionally required two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress. Since 2004, some of the reforms identified above have been attempted in the states. District plan initiatives have been offered in California, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Virginia, and Wisconsin. Proportional plans have been proposed in Colorado and Pennsylvania. Nebraska has considered returning to the general ticket system. None of these, however, has been enacted to date.
Download or read book Elections written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Electoral College Reform written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proposals for Electoral College Reform written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elections a framework for evaluating reform proposals written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Electoral College Reform written by United States. Congress. House. Judiciary Committee and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proposals to Reform Our Electoral System written by Robert L. Tienken and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proposals to Reform Our Presidential Election System written by Thomas M. Durbin and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Election Reform Proposals of 1977 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Election Reform Basic References written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Electoral College written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States Constitution provides for indirect election of the President and Vice President by a group of officials known collectively as the electoral college. For additional information on contemporary operation of the system, consult CRS Report RS20273, The Electoral College: How It Works in Contemporary Presidential Elections. Critics contend that the electoral college is archaic and undemocratic, that it provides an unfair advantage to less populous states; that the "winner-take-all" provision, by which most states award all their electoral votes to the candidates winning the most popular votes, deprives many voters of any influence in the election; and that the system has the potential to elect a President who receives more electoral votes, but fewer popular votes, than his principal opponent. Further, they assert, the contingent election process, by which Congress elects the President and Vice President if no candidates receive an electoral college majority, is even less democratic. For additional information on contingent election, consult CRS Report RS20300, Election of the President and Vice President by Congress: Contingent Election. Supporters maintain that the electoral college is an integral element of the federal system, that the need to accrue state-by-state majorities is a strong support of the two party system, and that the system has delivered clear electoral mandates in all but four elections since 1804. Following the closely contested presidential election of 2000, in which the winning candidates for President and Vice President gained fewer popular votes than their major party opponents, there was renewed congressional interest in electoral college reform. For additional information on electoral college contingencies and broader aspects of reform proposals, consult CRS Report RL30804, The Electoral College: An Overview and Analysis of Reform Proposals. Seven proposals to reform the electoral college system were introduced in the 107th Congress. H.J.Res. 3 (Representative Green of Texas), and H.J.Res. 5 (Representative Delahunt), eliminating the electoral college and substituting direct popular election of the President; H.J.Res. 1 (Representative Clyburn), H.J.Res. 18 (Representative Engel), and H.J.Res. 37 (Representative Clement) incorporating the "district" method of awarding electoral votes; and H.J.Res. 17 (Representative Engel), providing for proportional award of electoral votes. H.J.Res. 25 (Representative Leach) was a hybrid plan. No action was taken on these measures, other than referral to the House Committee on the Judiciary. Instead, attention in the 107th Congress focused on election administration reform. For more information on this subject, please consult CRS electronic briefing book, Election Reform, available to Members of Congress and congressional staff at the CRS web site [http://www.congress.gov/brbk/html/eberf1.shtml] . This report will not be updated.
Download or read book Campaign and Election Reform written by Glenn H. Utter and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 1997-12 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference handbook on US electoral reforms offers brief descriptions of key reforms throughout the country's history, a chronology of significant events, biographical sketches of key figures, survey and other data on campaign financing and related matters, quotations on such topics as term limits and racial gerrymandering, a list of organizations and agencies, a lengthy annotated list of books, and shorter lists of periodicals, nonprint media, and Internet resources. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Proposals for Reform of the Electoral College written by Charlotte Byrd and published by Nova Snova. This book was released on 2023-06-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every four years, Congress gathers to count electoral votes and certify a winner of the presidential election. That process is usually uneventful. No longer--on January 6, 2021, supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, seeking to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's victory. There is a law meant to prevent the chaos of that day: the Electoral Count Act of 1887 (the "ECA").1 This book will examine the ECA and argue that it is badly in need of reform.
Download or read book Reforming the Presidential Nomination Process written by Steven S. Smith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2008 U.S. presidential campaign has provided a lifetime's worth of surprises. Once again, however, the nomination process highlighted the importance of organization, political prowess, timing, and money. And once again, it raised many hackles. The Democratic contest in particular generated many complaints—for example, it started too early, it was too long, and Super Tuesday was overloaded. This timely book synthesizes new analysis by premier political scientists into a cohesive look at the presidential nomination process—the ways in which it is broken and how it might be fixed. The contributors to Reforming the Presidential Nomination Process address different facets of the selection process, starting with a brief history of how we got to this point. They analyze the importance—and perceived unfairness—of the earliest primaries and discuss what led to record turnouts in 2008. What roles do media coverage and public endorsements play? William Mayer explains the "superdelegate" phenomenon and the controversy surrounding it; James Gibson and Melanie Springer evaluate public perceptions of the current process as well as possible reforms. Larry Sabato (A More Perfect Constitution) calls for a new nomination system, installed via constitutional amendment, while Tom Mann of Brookings opines on calls for reform that arose in 2008 and Daniel Lowenstein examines the process by which reforms may be adopted—or blocked.
Download or read book The Electoral College written by Thomas H. Neale and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
