It also means the popular vote will soon come into play, but what exactly is the popular vote and does it matter? In short, ...

Nov 5 (Reuters) - In the United States, a candidate becomes president not by winning a majority of the national popular vote but through a system called the Electoral College, which allots ...

Yet one proposal would further delay results and worsen presidential elections: the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPV). Passed by 17 states with 209 electoral votes, the compact ...

Bipartisan reforms enacted in 2022 make it much harder to interfere with the appointment of electors who represent a state’s popular vote, and harder to block certification in Congress of the ...

CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten disclosed to viewers Friday that former President Trump could very well win the national popular vote in November, something that hasn’t happened to a ...

Every vote should count the same. It doesn’t. That’s why candidates (most recently Hillary Clinton and Al Gore) won the popular vote yet still lost the election. All but two of the 538 ...

In the United States, a presidential candidate is elected not by winning a majority of the national popular vote but through a system called the Electoral College, which grants electoral votes ...

All of this raises a possibility that few people would have contemplated at the beginning of the cycle: a Trump victory in the national popular vote. Democrats have won the national popular vote ...

Tim Walz (D), recently (briefly) calling for a national popular vote. That Trump benefits from the electoral college has long been an article of faith. He, after all, was elected in 2016 despite ...

Trump’s support in key swing states. But the national polls, on average, aligned pretty closely with the popular vote, which Hillary Clinton won. In fact, the national polls in 2020 were worse ...

Harris could conceivably win all seven, as could Donald Trump. The national popular vote could be narrowly decided even while the electoral college sees a significant divide. Or the opposite could ...

So why does counting votes take so long? And is the process secure? Let's take *** look at what's involved first. Your ballot is cast in one of two ways in person or the increasingly popular vote ...