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- W230845903 abstract "For a brief time in September of 2008, country appeared to be heading toward another electoral crisis. Polls showed Barack Obama and John McCain each holding leads in states representing 269 electoral votes, meaning that an election at that point would result in neither candidate winning 270 majority of votes necessary for victory. This would require House to pick a president by a majority vote of states via so-called procedure, once disparaged by Jefferson as the most dangerous blot in our constitution. While Barack Obama’s decisive victory in 2008 presidential election deflected such a result, contingent procedure has been used to pick a president twice in our history, and both elections were accompanied by serious political turmoil. However, because these elections occurred nearly two centuries ago, there is little concern about contingent procedure today. The contingent procedure thus presents a unique paradox in our law: it is seemingly irrelevant yet extremely dangerous. Its rare use causes it to be largely ignored by Congress and public, while potentially grave and destabilizing consequences of its use make its continued existence a serious liability. This Comment argues that contingent procedure is a deeply flawed mechanism for resolving contested presidential elections and proposes two means by which it may be retired. Part I discusses contingent procedure’s origins and mechanics and demonstrates that contingent procedure is obsolete. Part II explores elections of 1800 and 1824 in order to note perverse incentives for Congress and presidential candidates that procedure’s use would create. Part III proposes elimination of contingent procedure by constitutional amendment and argues that procedure should be replaced with an automatic Popular Procedure that would award Presidency and Vice Presidency to ticket winning a plurality of national popular vote. While noting advantages of such a solution, Part III also discusses its central flaw: difficulty of building political will to achieve it. Part IV thus proposes a compromise, “Bypass Procedure” that would involve amending state electoral-vote allocation laws such that in event of an electoral tie, at least one state would allocate a tie-breaking electoral vote to candidate winning national popular vote. Following a discussion of advantages and disadvantages of this approach, Part V concludes." @default.
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- W230845903 title "The Most Dangerous Blot in Our Constitution: Retiring the Flawed Electoral College 'Contingent Procedure'" @default.
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