Talk:United States Electoral College

message: This 2022 legislation changed a number of aspects of the Electoral process.
The section United States Electoral College#Meetings currently includes:
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The electors certify the Certificates of Vote, and copies of the certificates are then sent in the following fashion:This source is 11 years old and an archive of a dead link!
* One is sent by registered mail to the President of the Senate (who usually is the incumbent vice president of the United States);
* Two are sent by registered mail to the Archivist of the United States;
* Two are sent to the state's secretary of state; and
* One is sent to the chief judge of the United States district court where those electors met.
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In particular rather than "registered mail" , the law now says  
“The electors shall immediately transmit at the same time and by the most expeditious method available the certificates of votes so made by them, together with the annexed certificates of ascertainment of appointment of electors, as follows:
So will we see a road rally, mail rockets, drones, and/or delivery robots? Or will an PDF via email suffice? :-)
Lent (talk) 18:27, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022 

message: U.S. stands out in how it picks a head of state | Pew Research Center
How Germany’s electoral college was set up to prevent another Hitler - The Washington Post
Thirty democracies are constitutional monarchies (with elected representatives in Parliament selecting the Prime Minister), and another thirty republics use indirect-voting, including Germany and India.  192.252.228.133 (talk) 03:11, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: A prime minister is NOT the head of state. And the indirect elections in other countries are not the same as the electoral college. The EC is chosen for the single purpose of the presidential election. The indirect elections in other countries have preexisting government bodies choose the head of state as an additional duty. This was all explained in your first link --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 22:12, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: "bdieschoose" What do you mean by that? Dimadick (talk) 22:24, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, my phone keyboard was acting up and I didn't proofread the post. I've fixed it now.--User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 02:22, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

text: Not in Germany; the electoral college used for their presidential elections IS a single-purpose assembly, albeit composed one half by their parliament. Autokefal Dialytiker (talk) 05:30, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: "albeit composed one half by their parliament". There's the difference. I meant for such situations to be covered by the phrase "single purpose of the presidential election", but see how it could be open to interpretation. The constitution of the US expressly forbids federal office holders (including senators and representatives) from being electors. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 15:06, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  the US is not the only country using indirect voting 

message: Proposing reorganizing the article to put sections towards the top by:
1) higher-quality secondary sources and analysis. A number of sections currently at the top have really long quotes, citing primary sources that appear to be original research and interpretations that will require quite a bit of work to sort through all the tags before they are encyclopedic.
2) notability: this is a highly-critiqued form of electing president that has been the subject of more constitutional amendment attempts than any other part of the constitution (and a system of electing president that every other democracy has gotten rid of). Elevating these paragraphs would emphasize the most notable parts of the Electoral College (its uniqueness worldwide and debate over its merits and reform attempts). Superb Owl (talk) 17:55, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reorganize article based on quality and/or notability of the sections