Category: electoral college

[Premiering NOW] This 150-Year-Old Act Is the Secret Behind Chaos of the 2020 Election | Facts Matter

Exactly 742 days ago, Vice President Mike Pence, while standing before a joint session of Congress, accepted the Electoral College votes for the 2020 election, and in so doing, formalized Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump. At the time, both President Trump and a large contingent of Republicans in general were very opposed to that…


This 150-Year-Old Act Is the Secret Behind Chaos of the 2020 Election | Facts Matter

Exactly 742 days ago, Vice President Mike Pence, while standing before a joint session of Congress, accepted the Electoral College votes for the 2020 election, and in so doing, formalized Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump. At the time, both President Trump and a large contingent of Republicans in general were very opposed to that…


[Premiering 1/18 at 1PM ET] This 150-Year-Old Act Is The Secret Behind Chaos of The 2020 Election | Facts Matter

Exactly 742 days ago, Vice President Mike Pence, while standing before a joint session of Congress, accepted the Electoral College votes for the 2020 election, and in so doing, formalized Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump. At the time, both President Trump and a large contingent of Republicans in general were very opposed to that…


Reforms to Electoral Count Act Included in $1.7 Trillion Omnibus Bill

Republicans and Democrats have attached a bill revising the Electoral Count Act to their $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package, contending that the new law would prevent a repeat of the Jan. 6 Capitol breach from occurring in the future. The bill would clarify the role of the vice president in counting Electoral College votes after…


2020 Census Errors Affect Elections, Aid Blue States, Hurt Red States

Republican-leaning states have been shortchanged at least three congressional seats and electoral college votes because their population was undercounted in the 2020 census. Democrat-leaning states received at least one extra seat and vote due to census overcounts and kept at least two they should have lost, according to an analysis of Census Bureau’s post-census survey….


Texas GOP Supports a State Electoral College in Age of Polarization

Rising Star is a sleepy Texas town of 899 souls, surrounded by thousands of acres stretching to the horizon in a place that seems stuck in time. Cowboy hats are as common here as raising cattle, and the metallic clang of pumpjacks spitting out oil remains commonplace. Like many towns in West Texas, it has…


California Bill to Prevent ‘Faithless Electors’ Heads to Governor’s Desk

A bill that seeks to prevent “faithless electors” among California’s electoral college members during presidential elections has passed unanimously in both houses of the state legislature and now awaits Governor Gavin Newsom’s final decision. A faithless elector is someone who does not vote for the candidate they had pledged to vote for as a member…


Federal Prosecutors Probing False Electoral College Submissions in Several States

Federal prosecutors are probing 2020 Electoral College submissions that they say falsely declared former President Donald Trump the winner of several states he lost. “Our prosecutors are looking at those, and I can’t say anything more on ongoing investigations,” Lisa Monaco, the Justice Department’s deputy attorney general told CNN. Attorneys general in Michigan and New…


Why Communists Are Focused Heavily on Turning Texas Blue

The state of Texas has historically been a Republican stronghold, but communists and Democrats are focusing heavily on trying to flip Texas blue. The reason that Texas has now become a hotbed of communist activity is because it holds 38 electoral college votes, and so if Texas is turned blue, then America could turn into…


US Census Hands More House Seats to Republican Strongholds Texas, Florida

Texas, Florida and North Carolina are among the states that will gain congressional seats based on new population data from the U.S. census, a shift that could boost Republican chances of recapturing the House of Representatives from Democrats in next year’s midterm elections. The overall U.S. population stood at 331,449,281, the Census Bureau said on…