Whether the Electoral College is fair or necessary is subject to fierce debate that in some ways dates back to its founding.

The Electoral College was conceived of and adopted at the 1787 Constitutional Convention. The Founding Fathers established ...

The United States’ presidential election system has been a source of contention since the delegates to the Constitutional ...

This story was originally published in 2020.Each presidential election reignites an age-old debate on the Electoral College.

The Electoral College ensures that even the most sparsely populated states have an effect on the final result (Wyoming, ...

The actual outcome of the 2024 presidential election will be determined by the Electoral College. The Conversation U.S. has ...

A further sign of the Electoral College’s ephemeral nature: The term isn’t mentioned in the Constitution. At the Convention, Southern states successfully argued for using enslaved people’s ...

But some Convention attendees also believed candidates would likely ... “And then they say, well, what about an intermediate ...

Here's why presidential candidates have to concentrate on a handful of swing states and why the winner of the popular vote ...

There is a strong argument that winner-take-all is unconstitutional because it effectively nullifies votes. But if courts won ...

If the U.S. is truly committed to the principles of democracy, the Electoral College must be redefined to more accurately ...