After last fall’s election of La Plata County’s Board of County Commissioners, we read of some county neighbors complaining about the “undemocratic” method used to elect commissioners in our county.

A key issue to understand about Electoral College is "it proportionately favors smaller states over larger states," says Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school a U.C. Berkley. It would take ...

This situation, described as a contingent election, has occurred only twice in US history, most recently in 1824. The Electoral College often means winning certain key states, commonly referred to ...