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The People's Choice by Jeff Greenfield.
A TV commentator writes his first novel -- about the Electoral College!
EC links This is not an exhautive list, but it covers some of the better Electoral College resources on the web. The selection is biased against sites with extreme anti-Electoral College sentiments. Links to New Thinking about the Electoral College Math Against Tyranny by Will Hively. From the November, 1996 issue of Discover magazine. An extended discussion of the mathematical defense of the Electoral College put forth by Alan Natapoff, an MIT physicist. Natapoff's great contribution is his analogy between the U.S. Electoral College and the 1960 U.S. Baseball World Series. In that 7-game contest, the Yankees outscored the Pirates because of a few blowout victories, but the Pirates took the Series because they won more games. Natapoff's mathematical theorem demonstrates that a citizen's vote is more likely to make a difference if there are 50 state contests rather than a single national poll. Links to Conventional Electoral College Information Here is where you will find most of the "common knowledge" about the Electoral College. A lot of it is misinformation, or presented with a tone of disdain, but there are useful facts among the editorializing. The Electoral College. Lots of interesting stuff, from the Federal Election Commission. There is a history of the Electoral College available in PDF format. The National Archives and Record Administration Electoral College Homepage. This page includes a procedural guide that describes how the elections take place in the states how the votes are certified to the Federal government. The National Archivist plays the coordinating role. Electoral College index. This is from the US Information Agency, so foreigners learn more than most people in the U.S. about the Electoral College. (The link to the PDF file from this page is dead. It may be the same as the Federal Election Commission, above.) Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections Maps and graphics on every Presidential election since 1860. Wonderful! State election links From the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED). A good place to start if you are looking for information about a particular state's electors. |
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