Tag: presidential electors

How State Legislatures Can Break the Power of Corrupt Big-City Machines in Presidential Elections

Commentary This is the fourth essay in a five-part series. This essay explains how lawmakers in swing states can contain local corruption in presidential elections: by changing how their states choose presidential electors. This is the fourth in a five-part series on how to cleanse our presidential contests from the kind of irregularities we saw…


Wisconsin Lawmakers Join Lawsuit to Block Certification of Presidential Electors

Two Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin have joined a federal lawsuit that seeks to block the counting of Electoral College votes from several contested states when Congress meets in a joint session on Jan. 6. Wisconsin state Reps. Jeff Mursau and David Steffen signed onto a suit filed on Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the District…