It’s the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December in a presidential election year, so we all know what that means – Electoral College day. As per the Constitution, electors in 50 states ...

What is a “swing state” — a place like Michigan, Arizona or Pennsylvania that’s super important every four years to people running for president? And why do votes in those states seem to mean more ...

The Commonwealth of Virginia is poised to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an agreement already joined by 17 other states and Washington, DC, in an attempt to effectively eliminate ...

For the last couple of decades, the Electoral College has been under increasing scrutiny. Though controversy around it dates to our nation’s founding, it was the 2000 election that really reignited a ...

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For example, a few days ago, a former Biden administration official asked publicly, “What if we selected our President by letting the person who got the most votes take the office, instead of the ...

For the last couple of decades, the Electoral College has been under increasing scrutiny. Though controversy around it dates to our nation’s founding, it was the 2000 election that really reignited a ...

Ballots await unsealing during a joint session of Congress to certify the electoral college votes of the 2024 presidential election on Jan. 6 last year. (Pete Kiehart/For The Washington Post) A ...