[EL] Electoral College history resources

[Rob Richie]

I'll add three FairVote-related resources on this. See our 2011 testimony
in Pennsylvania, our 2011 report on national changes and my detailed
December 2012 blog:"


   - Rob Richie's December 2012
blog<http://www.fairvote.org/electoral-college-chaos-how-republicans-could-put-a-lock-on-the-presidency/#.UP_4ex3AeSo>
on
   how Republicans could lockdown the Electoral College
   - FairVote's 2011
report<http://www.fairvote.org/fuzzy-math-wrong-way-reforms-for-allocating-electoral-college-votes#.UQAIUB3AeSo>
on
   the problems of dividing electoral votes within states
   - FairVote's 2011
testimony<http://www.fairvote.org/fairvote-testimony-PA#.UQAITR3AeSo>
in
   Pennsylvania comparing different Electoral College approaches


In addition, Every Vote Equal has an important chapter on flaws with
congressional district allocation (in any form) and proportional allocation
systems (in the form that states can pass without a constitutional
amendment):
http://www.every-vote-equal.com/pdf/EVE-CH-4.pdf

Rob

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Michael McDonald <mmcdon at gmu.edu> wrote:

> Since there is interest in this given the current legislative actions, here
> is a link to a 1992 FEC report on the Electoral College, which has a brief
> history of changes to the allocation rules:
>
> http://www.fec.gov/pdf/eleccoll.pdf
>
> I also wrote a book review in the Election Law Journal that includes a
> discussion of changes to the Electoral College allocation rules, which has
> additional citations:
>
> Michael P. McDonald. 2009. "'A Magnificent Catastrophe' Retold by Edward
> Larson (book review)." The Election Law Journal 8(3): 234-47.
>
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