Poll Reveals Presidential Election Results Under Each of Four Alternate Voting Systems

Vox has this fascinating story about a poll conducted November 15-16 for President, using instant runoff voting, condorcet voting, approval voting, and range voting. This article is valuable not only for the presidential results, but for its clear explanation of each type of voting system. Thanks to Alex Hammer for the link.

Al Gore Says He Now Believes the Electoral College Should be Eliminated

On November 29, Al Gore told an audience that he now believes the nation should use the popular vote to choose the president. He says he continued to believe in the electoral college after he lost the 2000 presidential election, but only recently he has changed his mind. He says the system we have now is not working.

Thanks to Political Wire for this link.

Texas Republican Elector Who Won’t Vote for Donald Trump can only Resign by Not Showing Up on December 19

On November 28, many news sources said that Texas Republican presidential elector Art Sisneros, who doesn’t want to vote for Donald Trump, had resigned his position as a presidential elector. But, technically, he can’t do that; there is no provision for resigning.

What he can do is simply fail to appear in Austin on December 19. Presidential electors who don’t come to the meeting are deemed to have resigned, and to be replaced by the other electors. Thanks to Mark Seidenberg and Jim Riley for this information.

Those with a melodramatic imagination may imagine fanciful schemes in which presidential electors are kidnapped or otherwise prevented from attending such meetings.