A more difficult problem was how to structure the voting within the Electoral College. During the debates ... following a crisis in 1800, when Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr each received an ...

The last time an Electoral College tie occurred was in 1800, when Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr both won 73 electoral votes, Muller said. The House ultimately voted for Jefferson to be president.

This has happened only six times in U.S. history (1800, 1824, 1876 ... s founding fathers thinking when they created the ...

With the expiration of the 118th Congress this month, Senators Durbin, Schatz, and Welch’s constitutional amendment “to abolish the Electoral College” expired. It aimed “to provide for the direct ...

The Framers of the U.S. Constitution designed a unique system to choose our president in 1787: the Electoral College. More than two centuries later, it remains an invaluable institution that helps ...

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 ...