#Electoral Votes

Delta Township — Michigan canvassers on Tuesday approved the 100-word summary for a ballot initiative that would join Michigan to a multi-state compact aimed at awarding the state's electoral votes to the national popular vote winner. If enough states agreed to the compact, future presidential candidates would have a new...

Donald Kirk Hartle, a 55-year-old Republican voter who publicly protested a 2020 ballot being cast in his dead wife’s name, has been charged with voter fraud. The Nevada Republican Party and other conservative groups cited Hartle’s claim as proof of “widespread” voter fraud hyped by then-President Donald Trump. However, Nevada prosecutors now say that Hartle himself submitted the fraudulent ballot under his dead wife’s name.

In 1968, republican Richard Nixon defeated democrat Hubert Humphrey to become president of the United States. In the Electoral College, Nixon defeated Humphrey 301 to 191, with American Independent George Wallace coming in third with 46. In the popular vote, Nixon only defeated Humphrey by around 500,000 votes out of...

GRAND RAPIDS — Republicans in the Michigan Legislature are opposing a plan to have Michigan join a group of states calling for a national popular vote to determine the presidency, rather than the Electoral College. Republicans, including Sen. Aric Nesbitt, R-Lawton, penned a letter addressed to Michigan voters asking them...

When the Electoral College was established in the 18th century, the president of the United States was to be elected by a majority of electors, not by Congress, states or a popular vote. Robert Amyot, professor of political science at Hastings College, spoke Friday about the Electoral College during a...

LANSING, MI — Awarding Michigan’s 15 electoral votes to whichever candidate wins the national popular vote in presidential elections would be “disastrous,” dozens of Republican lawmakers argue in a letter opposing a potential ballot initiative. Fifty-seven members of the Michigan House and Senate, including Republican leadership in each chamber, signed...

LANSING, Mich. — Republican lawmakers who control the Michigan Legislature say they “vehemently reject” the plan for the battleground state to award its presidential electors to the winner of the national popular vote. Seventeen of the 20 Republicans in the state Senate and 40 of the 57 GOP lawmakers in...

According to the Detroit News, 57 Michigan state legislators have signed a letter opposing efforts to effectively eliminate the Electoral College by having states sign on to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. The scheme, being promoted by several blue states, which award by default all the state’s electoral votes...

Canada’s chief electoral officer Stéphane Perrault has confirmed Conservative MP Elect Ryan Williams as official winner of the Bay of Quinte riding in the Sept. 20 federal general election following the return of election writs this week in Ottawa. Story continues below. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your...

A bipartisan group is pushing to change the way U.S. voters elect presidents.

DETROIT — Saul Anuzis, a former chair of the Michigan Republican Party, and Mark Brewer, who chaired state Democrats for years, have usually agreed politically on just about … nothing.