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How the Electoral College isn’t democratic today

Sylvia Freire, Reporter November 15, 2024

In recent years, more people have questioned whether the Electoral College is a system that truly upholds democracy in our nation.  The founding fathers created the Electoral College “as a compromise...

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Live 2024 presidential election updates

Casey Sebastiano, Lilly Keith, and Christian Kantosky November 5, 2024

Harris 226              Trump 312 As votes are counted and states are called, the Kentucky Kernel will be providing live updates state by state as Kamala Harris and Donald Trump continue the race...

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Like other states, Kentucky should adopt national popular voting system

February 10, 2019

On Jan. 29, the Colorado Senate passed a National Popular Vote Interstate Compact bill in hopes of eventually ridding the state of the electoral college.If passed in the Colorado House, the state will...

America needs more political diversification

Dalton Stokes November 27, 2017

In the United States, the self-proclaimed best and freest country in the world, we have two parties.Technically, we have a few other smaller parties, but we have two choices for president and for other...

Letter to editor: updating the presidential election process

By Joe Bialek Cleveland, Ohio November 27, 2016

The framers of the US Constitution created the Electoral College as a result of a compromise for the presidential election process. During the debate, some delegates felt that a direct popular election...

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