1. What is the Electoral College? | National Archives
Jul 6, 2023 · The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President. Your State has the same ...
The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The Founding Fathers established it in the Constitution, in part, as a compromise between the election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. What is the process? The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress. How many electors are there? How are they distributed among the States?
2. Roles and Responsibilities in the Electoral College Process
Jul 6, 2023 · On the first Tuesday after the second Wednesday in December, the electors meet in their respective States to cast their votes for President ...
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6. The Electoral College - The Policy Circle
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7. Electoral College - History, Art & Archives - House.gov
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Established in Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution, the Electoral College is the formal body which elects the President and Vice President of the United States. Each state has as many "electors" in the Electoral College as it has Representatives and Senators in the United States Congress, and the District of Columbia has three electors. When voters go to the polls in a Presidential election, they actually vote for the slate of electors who have vowed to cast their ballots for that ticket in the Electoral College.ElectorsMost states require that all electoral votes go to the candidate who receives the most votes in that state. After state election officials certify the popular vote of each state, the winning slate of electors meet in the state capital and cast two ballots—one for Vice President and one for President. Electors cannot vote for a Presidential and Vice Presidential candidate who both hail from an elector’s home state. For instance, if both candidates come from New York, New York’s electors may vote for one of the candidates, but not both. In this hypothetical scenario, however, Delaware’s electors may vote for both New York candidates. This requirement is a holdover from early American history when one of the country’s major political fault lines divided big states from small states. The founders hoped this rule would prevent the largest states from dominating presidential elections.Maine and Nebraska employ a “district system” in which two at-large electors vote for the winner of the state’s popular vote and one elector votes for the popular winner in each congressional district. Although it is not unconstitutional for electors to vote for someone other than those to whom they pledged their support, many states, as well as the District of Columbia, “bind” electors to their candidate using oaths and fines. During the nineteenth century, “faithless electors”—those who broke their pledge and voted for someone else—were rare, but not uncommon, particularly when it came to Vice Presidents. In the modern era, faithless electors are rarer still, and have never determined the outcome of a presidential election.There has been one faithless elector in each of the following elections: 1948, 1956, 1960, 1968, 1972, 1976, and 1988. A blank ballot was cast in 2000. In 2016, seven electors broke with their state on the presidential ballot and six did so on the vice presidential ballot. ProcedureSince the mid-20th century, Congress has met in a Joint Session every four years on January 6 at 1:00 p.m. to tally votes in the Electoral College. The sitting Vice President presides over the meeting and opens the votes from each state in alphabetical order. He passes the votes to four tellers—two from the House and two from the Senate—who announce the results. House tellers include one Representative from each party and are appointed by the Speaker. At the end of the count, the Vice President then announces the name of the next President.With the ratification of the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution (and starting with the 75th Congress in 1937), the electoral votes are counted before the newly sworn-in Congress, elected the previous November.The date of the count was changed in 1957, 1985, 1989, 1997, 2009, and 2013. Sitting Vice Presidents John C. Breckinridge (1861), Richard Nixon (1961), and Al Gore (2001) all announced that they had lost their own bid for the Presidency. ObjectionsSince 1887, 3 U.S.C. 15 has set the method for objections by Members of Congress to electoral votes. During the Joint Session, lawmakers may object to individual electoral votes or to state returns as a whole. An objection must be declared in writing and signed by at least one Representative and one Senator. In the case of an objection, the Joint Session recesses and each chamber considers the objection separately for no more than two hours; each Member may speak for five minutes or less. After each house votes on whether to accept the objection, the Joint Session reconvenes and both chambers disclose their decisions. If both chambers agree to the objection, the electoral votes in question are not counted. If either chamber opposes the objection, the votes are counted.Objections to the Electoral College votes were recorded in 1969, 2005, and 2021. In all cases, the House and Senate rejected the objections and the votes in question were counted.Amending the ProcessOriginally, the Electoral College provided the Constitutional Convention with a compromise between two main proposals: the popular election of the President and the election of the President by Congress.Prior to 1804, electors made no distinction between candidates when voting for president and vice president; the candidate with the majority of votes became President and the candidate with the second-most votes became Vice President. The Twelfth Amendment—proposed in 1803 and ratified in 1804—changed that original process, requiring electors to separate their votes and denote who they voted for as President and Vice President. See Electoral College and Indecisive Elections for more information.The District of Columbia has had three electors since the Twenty-third Amendment was ratified in 1961.There have been other attempts to change the system, particularly after cases in which a candidate wins the popular vote, but loses in the Electoral College. Five times a candidate has won the popular vote and lost the election. Andrew Jackson in 1824 (to John Quincy Adams); Samuel Tilden in 1876 (to Rutherford B. Hayes); Grover Cleveland in 1888 (to Benjamin Harrison); Al Gore in 2000 (to George W. Bush); Hillary Clinton in 2016 (to Donald J. Trump).The closest Congress has come to amending the Electoral College since 1804 was during the 91st Congress (1969–1971) when the House passed H.J. Res. 681 which would have eliminated the Electoral College altogether and replaced it with the direct election of a President and Vice President (and a run off if no candidate received more than 40 percent of the vote). The resolution cleared the House 338 to 70, but failed to pass the Senate.Contingent ElectionsIn the case of an Electoral College deadlock or if no candidate receives the majority of votes, a “contingent election” is held. The election of the President goes to the House of Representatives. Each state delegation casts a single vote for one of the top three contenders from the initial election to determine a winner.Only two Presidential elections (1800 and 1824) have been decided in the House.Though not officially a contingent election, in 1876, South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana submitted certificates of elections for both candidates. A bipartisan commission of Representatives, Senators, and Supreme Court Justices, reviewed the ballots and awarded all three state’s electoral votes to Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio, who won the presidency by a single electoral vote.See Electoral College and Indecisive Elections for more information on Contingent Elections.
8. The U.S. Electoral College | GovInfo
Jan 8, 2021 · "The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall... be elected, as follows: Each State shall ...
"The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall... be elected, as follows: Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress..."
9. What Is the Electoral College? | The Pew Charitable Trusts
Jun 23, 2020 · When Americans cast their votes for president, they are in reality directing other people — called electors — to vote for the candidate who ...
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10. Electoral College - U.S. Embassy & Consulates in the United Kingdom
Nov 1, 2020 · The Electoral College was created by the framers of the U.S. Constitution as an alternative to electing the president by popular vote or by ...
The Electoral College was created by the framers of the U.S. Constitution as an alternative to electing the president by popular vote or by Congress. Each state elects the number of representatives to the Electoral College that is equal to its number of Senators—two from each state—plus its number of delegates in the House of Representatives. The District of Columbia, which has no voting representation in Congress, has three Electoral College votes. There are currently 538 electors in the Electoral College; 270 votes are needed to win the presidential election.
11. The Electoral College Explained | Brennan Center for Justice
Feb 17, 2021 · In other words, each awards its electoral votes to the presidential candidate chosen by the state's voters. Forty-eight states and the District ...
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12. Interpretation: Article II, Section 1, Clauses 2 and 3 | Constitution Center
But the Electoral College has produced recurring political controversy over the centuries and also experienced significant constitutional, legislative, and ...
Interpretations of Article II, Section 1, Clauses 2 and 3 by constitutional scholars
13. [PDF] THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE - Delaware Department of Elections
A third idea was to have the president elected by a direct popular vote. Direct election was rejected not because the Framers of the Constitution doubted public ...
14. Electoral college | Definition, Map, History, Votes, & Facts | Britannica
Aug 27, 2023 · In early elections, electors were chosen by legislatures, not by popular vote, in many states. 3Candidates winning no electoral votes and less ...
Electoral college, the system by which the president and vice president of the United States are chosen. It was devised by the framers of the United States Constitution to provide a method of election that was feasible, desirable, and consistent with a republican form of government. For the results
15. Electoral College - Washington Secretary of State - WA.gov
When voters of a state vote for President and Vice President on the General Election ballot, they are actually selecting the slate of electors that will ...
The 2020 Electoral College will be held December 14 at 12:00 PM in Olympia, Washington.
16. Electoral College: Definition, Map & History | Vaia
Well, yes and no - citizens cast their votes in their state, and then the state chooses electors who then vote directly for the president. The Electoral College ...
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18. The U.S. Government - Voting and Election Guide
Aug 10, 2023 · The Legislative Branch, or Congress, which drafts and enacts laws; The Judicial Branch, consisting of the Supreme Court and lower federal courts ...
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19. FEC | Citizens | Presidential elections
Learn about the financing of presidential elections, the rules for convention delegates and the electoral college system used to elect the President of the ...
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20. Brief The Electoral College - National Conference of State Legislatures
Mar 21, 2023 · Read about the Electoral College, how it works and state legislation to change the distribution of electoral votes and about faithless ...
Read about the Electoral College, how it works and state legislation to change the distribution of electoral votes and about faithless electors.
21. Electoral College - Flagler County Supervisor of Elections
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22. US Government for Kids: Electoral College - Ducksters
Kids learn about the Electoral College and how it elects the president of the United States government including how electors are chosen from each state, ...
Kids learn about the Electoral College and how it elects the president of the United States government including how electors are chosen from each state, who can be a delegate, and the pros and cons of the system.
23. Voting and Elections: American Government
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24. The Three Branches of Government - American Government and Politics
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