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The Electoral College: Time to get rid of this colonial-era relic | Bill Cotterell
Tallahassee Democrat 12/16/2020 Bill Cotterell, Capital Curmudgeon
Candidate Joe Biden wisely resisted some of the more extreme ideas pressed upon him by the most liberal wing of the Democratic Party.
When he becomes President Joe Biden next month, there will be no Medicare for All, no statehood for Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, no packing of the Supreme Court. But one goal advanced by the new breed “progressives” deserves some attention in the next four years.
The liberals are right about abolishing the Electoral College. It’s long past time Americans should just go vote for presidents and be done with it.
MADISON, Wis. The last few elections have put the Electoral College in a much brighter spotlight than it used to sit, and it’s become a partisan discussion whether it’s a system worth keeping around.
Two presidential elections in the last 20 years have resulted in the winner losing the popular vote while winning the necessary 270 electors in the Electoral College, and this year lawsuits from President Donald Trump and other Republican politicians have created a debate over whether certain states’ duly-cast electors should count.
University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Barry Burden thinks it’s important that voters know – no matter whom they picked on the ballot – they didn’t get to vote for the president and vice president.
To Fix the Electoral College, Change the Way Its Votes Are Awarded With new threats of faithless legislatures ignoring the popular vote, reform is more urgent than ever. Allocating electoral votes proportionately would avoid election disasters and could have bipartisan appeal. Kevin Johnson, Election Reformers Network | December 15, 2020 | Opinion
Happily, there was no drama when the nation s presidential electors met on Monday to elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Thanks in part to the Supreme Court, faithless electors did not threaten Biden s substantial lead, and no legislature ignored its state s popular vote to appoint a competing slate of electors. Some may conclude that the evils of the Electoral College have been tamed, that we can live with this creaky institution.