Editors’ Note: Excerpted from Vox.com, July 21, 2020. VoxFairfax has posted over a dozen articles on the Electoral College, the first at our launch on March 25, 2018. With less than 100 days until the next presidential election, anxious concerns about… Read More ›
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One Person, One Vote No Longer Fantasy
Election Day, November 5, 2024, Douglas County, Kansas The polls in Douglas County were bannered with long lines as voters queued up for the 2024 presidential election. Sam and Sylvia Appledore, lifetime residents, were all smiles, although they had been… Read More ›
A Muddled Majority
Editors’ Note: See the following previous VoxFairfax articles on redistricting in Virginia: https://voxfairfax.com/2018/08/19/one-person-one-vote-in-congressional-elections/; https://voxfairfax.com/2019/07/08/virginias-path-to-one-person-one-vote-faces-dangers/; and https://voxfairfax.com/2019/04/22/landmark-redistricting-reform-passed-in-virginia/. On March 6, the Virginia House of Delegates, on a vote of 54-46, agreed to a Senate bill placing a constitutional referendum on the… Read More ›
THE GERRYMANDER EFFECT IN STATE AND NATIONAL ELECTIONS [2018]
Editors’ Note: This article, analyzing the effects of the Electoral College as a national gerrymander, is being reposted on this anniversary date of our blog’s debut on March 25, 2018, as the topic has again risen to the top of… Read More ›
Constitutional Anachronism Frustrates Popular Voting
In the first presidential election, in 1788–89, the Virginian, George Washington, received all 69 electoral votes and 43,782 popular votes from white male property owners over the age of 21. The census of 1790 reported that the total population of… Read More ›
THE GERRYMANDER EFFECT IN STATE AND NATIONAL ELECTIONS
In the 2017 elections in Virginia for its lower house, Democrats outpolled Republicans 53 to 43% by a margin of 231,000 votes but secured only 49 of 100 seats at stake. In similar fashion, the Wisconsin case now before… Read More ›