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After the People Vote John C. Fortier

After the People Vote By John C. Fortier

After the People Vote by John C. Fortier

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This new, expanded edition of After the People Votefeaturing new sections on public opinion on the Electoral College and proposals for amending the Electoral College systemexplains how our system of electing a president works, especially the processes that kick in after the November general election date.

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After the People Vote: A Guide to the Electoral College by John C. Fortier

The mechanisms that lead to the final selection of a president are complex. Some procedures are sketched out in the original Constitution and its amendments, and others in federal law, congressional rules and procedures, state laws, and political party rules. This new, expanded edition of After the People Votefeaturing new sections on public opinion on the Electoral College and proposals for amending the Electoral College systemexplains how our system of electing a president works, especially the processes that kick in after the November general election date.

About John C. Fortier

John C. Fortier is the director of governmental studies at the Bipartisan Policy Center, where he directed the Commission on Political Reform. He was previously a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he also served as executive director of the Continuity of Government Commission, principal contributor to the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project, and participant in AEIs Election Watch. He was the director of the Center for the Study of American Democracy at Kenyon College and taught at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Delaware, Harvard University, and Boston College. Fortier served as an adviser to the Presidents Commission on Election Administration and a member of the American Law Institutes Project on Election Administration. He is the editor of the third edition of After the People Vote: A Guide to the Electoral College (AEI Press, 2004) and author of Absentee and Early Voting: Trends, Promises, and Perils (AEI Press, 2006), as well as other books and scholarly and popular articles. He is a frequent radio and television commentator on Congress, the presidency, and elections.

Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction

Timeline for the Presidential Elections of 2020, 2024, and 2028

Part I. How the Electoral College Works

1. How Are Electors Appointed?

2. For Whom Do Electors Vote?

3. How Are the Electoral Votes Counted?

4. What If No One Has a Majority?

5. What If No One Has Been Chosen by Inauguration Day?

6. What If a Major-Party Candidate Dies or Resigns?

7. Changing the Electoral College

Part II. The History of Disputed Elections

8. Three Disputed Elections: 1800, 1824, 1876

Norman J. Ornstein

9. The 2000 Election

John C. Fortier

Part III. Arguments for and Against the Electoral College

10. Lets Hear It for the Electoral College

Walter Berns

11. Why Old and New Arguments for the Electoral College Are Not Compelling

Akhil Reed Amar and Vikram David Amar

12. Excerpts from The Electoral College and the American Idea of Democracy

Martin Diamond

13. Public Opinion on the Electoral College

Karlyn Bowman

About the Authors

Notes

Appendixes

A. Provisions in the Constitution for Presidential Selection

B. Statutory Provisions for Presidential Selection

C. Nomination and Binding of Presidential Electors

D. 1825 Precedents

E. Party Rules

F. Allocation of Electoral Votes Among the States for 2004 and 2008

G. Faithless Electors

H. Electoral College and Popular Vote Outcomes of All Elections

Additional information

NPB9780844750347
9780844750347
0844750344
After the People Vote: A Guide to the Electoral College by John C. Fortier
John C. Fortier
New
Paperback
AEI Press
2020-12-01
140
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