The federal government has agreed not to publicly share a list of FBI agents who investigated the Jan. 6, attack on the ...
Two proposals to restore a winner-take-all model for Nebraska's future presidential elections appear to be stuck in limbo as ...
Vermont Democrat Senator Peter Welch, along with Democrat Senators Dick Durbin of Illinois and Brian Schatz of Hawaii, recently proposed a Constitutional amendment to eliminate the “undemocratic” ...
After last fall’s election of La Plata County’s Board of County Commissioners, we read of some county neighbors complaining about the “undemocratic” method used to elect commissioners in our county.
Editor: The New York Daily News inadvertently made the case for the electoral college. The electoral college allows all citizens in all states to have a say in who is ...
For decades Republicans in GOP-dominated Nebraska have tried and failed to upend the state’s unusual method of splitting its ...
On January 6, 2025, Vice President Kamala Harris certified the Electoral College vote that formally confirmed Donald Trump as ...
One can argue with a straight face that failing to allow voters to elect the president of their choice is an infringement on representative democracy. In one defensible worldview, giving voters the ...
With the expiration of the 118th Congress this month, Senators Durbin, Schatz, and Welch’s constitutional amendment “to abolish the Electoral College” expired. It aimed “to provide for the direct ...
Today's hearing summary report showed both bills are not popular with the public. LR24ca had 172 proponents and 728 opponents, while LB3 had 414 proponents and 1369 opponents. The next step for both ...
Donald Trump’s early administration moves are accelerating the concentration of executive power at the expense of Congress.
“Winner-take-all tends to depress voter turnout. It does so by creating the perception among many people that voting doesn’t matter when the outcome is all but predetermined. This is especially true ...