Por: The Advocate Opinion July 25, 2024
A recent letter declared that the Electoral College is anti-democratic and should be abolished. I will make the opposing argument.The Electoral College was a compromise developed during the process of writing the U.S. Constitution. We live in a constitutional republic, not a pure democracy. It is based on a federation of states bound together into a nation. The compromise set the election of president as a combination of both the vote of the... + full article
The Advocate USA Opinion July 23, 2024
Our community of letter writers often respond to one another, either to disagree with some point made or to amplify an argument. Generally, I like to see letter writers respond to something they see on the opinion pages, whether it's an editorial, a column or a letter. It... + más
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The Advocate USA Opinion January 20, 2024
In the Opinion section, we get many questions about letters to the editor. How do you decide what letters get published? Is there any way I can make my letter stand out? How long will it take before I see my letter in the paper and online?So today we are starting a new column in... + más
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Portland Press Herald USA Nation January 09, 2024
Lawmakers are considering a bill that would award Maine’s four electoral college votes to the presidential candidate who wins the national popular vote. The proposal is designed to reduce the influence of a handful of key battleground states with more weight in the Electoral... + más
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Los Angeles Times USA Politics July 14, 2023
Traumatized by the results of 2000 and 2016, when Republicans George W. Bush and Donald Trump won the presidency despite getting fewer votes than their Democratic opponents, many on the left and center-left have developed a deep aversion to the state-by-state counting of... + más
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Los Angeles Times USA Opinion May 03, 2023
The electoral college has been an anachronism for over a century. If by some miracle we could bring the Founding Fathers back via time machine, they would almost to a man express surprise that we still elect presidents using the weirdly complicated, state-based framework they... + más
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Portland Press Herald USA Opinion December 28, 2022
“Nothing is more essential to the survival of a democracy than the orderly transfer of power. And there is nothing more essential to the orderly transfer of power than clear rules for effecting it.” That at a Senate Rules Committee hearing in August succinctly describes the... + más
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Fox News USA Politics December 20, 2022
Democrats and Republicans have attached legislation rewriting the 19th-century Electoral Count Act to President Biden's $1.7 trillion budget, a move that lawmakers say could help avert a repeat of the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the . The bill, which is the byproduct of... + más
Negotiators add Electoral Count Act reforms to year-end government funding package | The Hill
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