my new cause

Election Day Registration. Minnesota had it for decades. Every state should.

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in defense of the Electoral College

A good article: Popularity Contest, In defense of the ElectoralCollege. It sidesteps the fundamental issue of whether a plurality of citizens should always be able to pick a president, and it has a nice bit of info that’s not put in a crucial context:
Upon seeing the plan, James Wilson of Pennsylvania, a tireless advocate for [...]

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Vote or lose your citizenship?

Australia and Belgium require their citizens to vote. If not, you get a small fine. Frankly, as a freedom-loving US citizen, I don’t like that, though I don’t think it’s terrible.
But I would have some sympathy for a law that stripped the citizenship of people who didn’t vote and didn’t offer a good reason why. [...]

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the people have spoken!

Blog reduction has begun. I may be keeping The Secret Academy separate, but I’ve posted a notice at the Electoral College blog that it’s on hiatus.
Information from there that might interest people here:
If the Electoral College ends in a tie, the choice of President goes to the House of Representatives and the choice of V.P. [...]

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