The President of the United States is chosen directly by the Electoral College, although indirectly the citizens select the President. Different states currently employ two systems of electoral-vote allocation under the Electoral College framework: the widely adopted winner-take-all system and...

This work examines issues surrounding the upcoming US elections. Issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic, vote-in-mail, election interference and racial tensions. This article argues that most elections are fraught with threats and challenges. Thus, in this period of uncertainty with COVID-19,...

This paper studies the manipulation of electoral maps by political parties, known as gerrymandering. At the core of our analysis is the recognition that districts must have the same population size but only voters matter for electoral incentives. Using a novel model of gerrymandering that allows...