And the national vote tally is irrelevant to picking a president; what matters is the selection of representatives from each state to the Electoral College. Each state chooses electors (their ...

A key issue to understand about Electoral College is "it proportionately favors smaller states over larger states," says Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school a U.C. Berkley. It would take ...

ORLANDO, Fla. - The Electoral College has been used, since the United States was founded, to elect the nation's president. The Electoral College is the process by which Americans elect their ...

Early Wednesday, Trump became the first candidate to collect 270 electoral votes to win back the White House. U.S. News breaks down how those votes were won in each state. Interested in more ...

After last fall’s election of La Plata County’s Board of County Commissioners, we read of some county neighbors complaining ...

(Getty photos, of Harris by Justin Sullivan and of Trump by Chip Somodevilla) LINCOLN — If every state adopted Maine and Nebraska’s unique system of awarding their Electoral College votes for ...

The Framers of the U.S. Constitution designed a unique system to choose our president in 1787: the Electoral College. More than two centuries later, it remains an invaluable institution that helps ...