The Constitution was amended in 1913 to provide for direct election of senators. The next reform, direct election of the President, is long overdue and terribly urgent.
A group of House Democrats introduced a resolution to amend the Constitution to abolish the Electoral College and institute a direct national popular vote for president and vice president.
My Republican colleagues’ ploy threatens the future of the electoral college
For decades, progressives have tried to abolish the electoral college in favor of a direct democracy approach; under their plan, votes would be cast in a national election, bypassing electors and the states. They have pushed populist initiatives, most notably the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, to do away with the electoral college without even having to go through the inconvenience of a constitutional amendment. This interstate compact directs participating states to cast their electoral votes for the presidential candidate with the highest number of votes nationwide regardless of the choice of the voters in their own states.
Will GOP challenge to Biden victory lead to the demise of the Electoral College? Print this article
The Republican move to object to the certification of the 2020 election results on Wednesday has some wondering, even hopeful, if the long-shot bid to overturn President-elect Joe Biden s win will lead to the Electoral College s demise.
Regardless of whether the effort to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat by President Trump and his allies is successful, proponents of abolishing the current Electoral College system have some fresh material.
Noting that only one Republican presidential candidate has won the national popular vote in the last 32 years, a group of GOP House members Kelly Armstrong of North Dakota, Ken Buck of Colorado, Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin, Nancy Mace of South Carolina, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Tom McClintock of California, and Chip Roy of Texas released a statement saying they don’t support objecting to the certification in part because of the prec
Support grew Tuesday for an argument spelled out by U.S. Rep. Ken Buck opposing an attempt by fellow Republicans to undo the results of the presidential election.
In a letter sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Buck and 11 House Republicans criticized a GOP strategy to reverse Democrat Joe Biden s win over President Donald Trump, maintaining the Constitution doesn t grant Congress the authority to substitute its judgment for states that have certified slates of presidential electors. We must respect the states authority here, wrote Buck, the outgoing chairman of the Colorado Republican Party. Though doing so may frustrate our immediate political objectives, we have sworn an oath to promote the Constitution above our policy goals. We must count the electoral votes submitted by the states.