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Congress Must Count The Votes: The Danger Of Not Including A State's Electoral College Votes During A Disputed Presidential Election, Joshua A. Douglas
Congress Must Count The Votes: The Danger Of Not Including A State's Electoral College Votes During A Disputed Presidential Election, Joshua A. Douglas
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Imagine this (nightmare) scenario: In the November 2020 election,
one party wins control of both Houses of Congress, and the presidency comes
down to a disputed election in a state that typically leans toward the other party.
Let's say that Republicans take back a majority of the House of Representatives,
retain control of the Senate, and the presidency will depend on a swing state like
Pennsylvania-a state that voted for the Democratic nominee from 1992
through 2012 but the Republican nominee in 2016. Assume also that Congress,
now fully under Republican control, receives two competing slates of electoral
college votes …
The Loch Ness Monster, Haggis, And A Lower Voting Age: What American Can Learn From Scotland, Joshua A. Douglas
The Loch Ness Monster, Haggis, And A Lower Voting Age: What American Can Learn From Scotland, Joshua A. Douglas
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This Article, prepared for an American University Law Review
symposium, explores what the United States can learn from Scotland's experience
in lowering the voting age to sixteen. The minimum voting age in American
elections seems firmly entrenched at eighteen, based in part on the Twenty-Sixth
Amendment, which prohibits states from denying the right to vote to anyone aged
eighteen or older. Yet the conversation about lowering the voting age to sixteen,
at least for local elections, has gained steam in recent years. The debate in
America, however, is nascent compared to the progress in Scotland, which
lowered the voting age …