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Electoral College Reform is Heating Up, and Posing Some Tough Choices

Robert Bennett
Northwestern University Law School

February 24, 2006

Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 886777

Abstract:
Electoral College reform is beginning to get some attention, with two different emphases: a move to institute a nationwide popular vote without a constitutional amendment, and a move to forbid faithless electoral votes. There is no logical incompatibility between the two, but in political and public policy terms, there are tensions between them. This paper evaluates the relative merits and importance of the two efforts and explores the tensions in simultaneous pursuit of the two.

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Date posted: February 27, 2006 ; Last revised: April 11, 2006

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Bennett, Robert, Electoral College Reform is Heating Up, and Posing Some Tough Choices (February 24, 2006). Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 886777. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=886777

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