SACRAMENTO — At a somber electoral college ceremony at the state Capitol on Tuesday, electors who had hoped to be celebrating the historic presidency of a Democratic daughter of California cast their ...

For either Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump to win the presidential election, they’ll need to secure 270 electoral votes. Each state has the same number of electors as it ...

SACRAMENTO — Before this year’s presidential election slips into gloomy history, we should pause to slam our moldy, undemocratic vote-counting system called the electoral college. If Donald Trump had ...

CALIFORNIA, USA — As the electoral vote is tallied for the presidential election, the West Coast is still waiting to make its impact. Among the western states, California dwarfs the others with a ...

A big-picture question in our current political climate is: Does the Electoral College truly represent the people of the U.S.? And if we were to abolish it, would elections be more fair and inclusive?

An electoral college is a system in which a body of electors selects a candidate for a particular office. The United States uses it to choose heads of state, but an electoral college is not uniquely ...

Set off by criticism from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the discussion has often focused on the system’s real but minor bias toward small states, and the system’s intended (by the founders) but now entirely ...

Americans are gearing up for yet another contentious presidential election. And while nearly 155 million people across the United States voted in the 2020 presidential election, all eyes will be on ...

California electors voted for Kamala Harris in the state Capitol on Tuesday as the electoral college confirmed Donald Trump's win in the presidential election. (Mackenzie Mays / Los Angeles Times) At ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - A presidential candidate needs 270 electoral votes to win the presidency in the U.S. The number of electoral votes each state has depends on U.S. Census data and the number of ...

The debate over the Electoral College this week is familiar, but off point. Set off by criticism from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the discussion has often focused on the system’s real but minor bias toward ...