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The section United_States_Electoral_College#Evolution_to_the_general_ticket appears to conflate two separate issues.
1. The change from electors making individual decisions to electors being pledged to vote for a specific candidate.
2. The change from electors being elected by district to electors being elected on a statewide general ticket.
In other words, there could, in theory at least, be four permutations: -
1. Electors are elected by district, to make individual decisions.
2. Electors are elected by district, pledged to a specific candidate. This is what happens with the electors corresponding to the Congresscritturs in Maine and Nebraska.
3. Electors are elected on a statewide general ticket, to make individual decisions.
4. Electors are elected on a statewide general ticket, pledged to a specific candidate. This is what happens in the 48 states other than Maine and Nebraska, and in Washington DC.
The article is suggesting that Hamilton and Madison were talking about the change from [electors making individual decisions] to [electors being pledged to vote for a specific candidate]. However, I suggest that they were actually talking about the change from [electors being elected by district] to [electors being elected on a statewide general ticket]. Alekksandr (talk) 21:44, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
This 2022 legislation changed a number of aspects of the Electoral process.
The section United States Electoral College#Meetings currently includes:
[...]
The electors certify the Certificates of Vote, and copies of the certificates are then sent in the following fashion:[1]
[...]
In particular rather than "registered mail" , the law now says [https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4573/text#ide93e7469-13a1-46f5-93f3-856940f78c0f]
“The electors shall immediately transmit at the same time and by the most expeditious method available the certificates of votes so made by them, together with the annexed certificates of ascertainment of appointment of electors, as follows:
So will we see a road rally, mail rockets, drones, and/or delivery robots? Or will an PDF via email suffice? :-)
Lent (talk) 18:27, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
Lent (talk) 18:27, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
Also changed is the date the electors meet in their respective state legislatures following the presidential election. I've known it to be the "first Monday after the second Wednesday in December" for a number of years, and then I see that the one coming up in 2024 is December 17 (a Tuesday), which is one day later than I thought it would be. Section 106(a) of the law—what I cite here apparently is an early draft of it (a bill at the time)—addresses this.[1] It looks like a fairly straight-forward addition to the "Meeting of electors" section (currently 3.8 in the table of contents), but the old date is mentioned in at least one other place (4.2.4 "Meetings" in the table of contents, for one). Possibly just a simple change there? MPFitz1968 (talk) 21:09, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
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How Germany’s electoral college was set up to prevent another Hitler - The Washington Post
Thirty democracies are constitutional monarchies (with elected representatives in Parliament selecting the Prime Minister), and another thirty republics use indirect-voting, including Germany and India. 192.252.228.133 (talk) 03:11, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
Proposing reorganizing the article to put sections towards the top by:
1) higher-quality secondary sources and analysis. A number of sections currently at the top have really long quotes, citing primary sources that appear to be original research and interpretations that will require quite a bit of work to sort through all the tags before they are encyclopedic.
2) notability: this is a highly-critiqued form of electing president that has been the subject of more constitutional amendment attempts than any other part of the constitution (and a system of electing president that every other democracy has gotten rid of). Elevating these paragraphs would emphasize the most notable parts of the Electoral College (its uniqueness worldwide and debate over its merits and reform attempts). Superb Owl (talk) 17:55, 16 February 2024 (UTC)