News Analysis | Politics & Elections Don’t Certify Electors and Electoral College Vote Without Full Recount The American people deserve to know that the outcome of this election is actually valid. By Marjorie Cohn & Jeanne Mirer , ZCommunications December 14, 2016 Truthout
Interview | Politics & Elections Electoral College Members Seek Intel Briefing on Possible Russian Meddling in Election to Aid Trump This year electors in states won by Donald Trump are facing mounting pressure to reject his presidency. By Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! December 13, 2016 Truthout
Interview | Politics & Elections Meet the Republican Elector Who Is Refusing to Vote for Trump A Republican member of the Electoral College has come out saying he will not vote for Trump. By Nermeen Shaikh & Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! December 8, 2016 Truthout
Interview | Politics & Elections Lawrence Lessig: The Electoral College Is Constitutionally Allowed to Choose Clinton Over Trump Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig sparks debate over the issue of the Electoral College with his recent op-ed published in The Washington Post. By Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! November 30, 2016 Truthout
News Analysis | The Non-Existent Trump Mandate Though Donald Trump prevailed in the Electoral College, he failed to secure a plurality of the total ballots cast. By Nicolas J.S. Davies , ConsortiumNews November 19, 2016 Truthout
Interview | Politics & Elections How to Do Away With the Electoral College System (Short of a Constitutional Amendment) The United States is the only major democracy in the world to elect its president by a mechanism other than the popular vote. By Nell Abram , FreeSpeechRadioNews November 18, 2016 Truthout
News Analysis | Slavery, Democracy and the Racialized Roots of the Electoral College This election should challenge us to ask some inconvenient questions about the racialized nature of our political institutions. By Christopher F. Petrella , AfricanAmericanIntellectualHistorySociety November 15, 2016 Truthout
News Analysis | Electoral College Follies: How Tim Kaine or Mike Pence Could Become Our Next President It's time we abandoned the Electoral College for a free, unmediated democracy like a majority of the world's nations. By Gar Smith , Truthout October 25, 2016 Truthout
News Analysis | What the US Can Learn From Canada’s Experiment With Electoral Reform Canadian democracy could become more representative thanks to efforts to transform how members of Parliament are elected. By Kit O’Connell , Truthout July 4, 2016 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections Democracy Spring and the US Voting Matrix: How Much of the Electoral Process Is Illusory? Barriers to voting in the U.S. exist as a comprehensive matrix of political disenfranchisement. By Candice Bernd , Truthout April 24, 2016 Truthout