It’s a defining feature of our constitutional republic, not to mention a confusing and highly controversial one. Here’s what ...

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Congressional clerks pass the Electoral College certificate from the state of Ohio while unsealing and organizing all the votes from the 50 states in the House of Representatives chamber at the U.S.

To the editor: I fully agree with George Skelton’s views on the electoral college. In 1989, as a newly elected member of the Democratic National Committee from California, I submitted a resolution ...

A majority of Americans — more than 60% — support abolishing the Electoral College, according to a September report by the Pew Research Center. But the system has survived an unprecedented number of ...

If you're planning on casting your vote today, you may be wondering how exactly elections work in the United States of America or whether your vote matters. More specifically, what is the Electoral ...

Although she won the popular vote by nearly three million ballots, Clinton fell short in the Electoral College after Trump flipped the traditionally Democratic Rust Belt states ...

President-elect Donald Trump appears with Vice President-elect JD Vance on the first night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 15. Doug Mills The New York Times Donald Trump has ...