The electoral college consists of electors from each state. Some states allow electors to vote for whoever they want, while other states levy penalties against electors who vote differently than the public (called "faithless electors").
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| - The electoral college consists of electors from each state. Some states allow electors to vote for whoever they want, while other states levy penalties against electors who vote differently than the public (called "faithless electors").
- Electoral College refers to a set of electors (other than ordinary voters) selected to elect an individual to fill a particular office. Examples include the contemporary U.S. Presidential electoral college, the contemporary French Senatorial electoral college, the contemporary College of Cardinals who elect the Pope and the college of prince-electors of the Holy Roman Empire.
- The Electoral College, also known as the Electoral Dubbing University or simply Elect Dub U, is an educational establishment which focuses on Presidential election analysis, basketball and liquor brewing.
- The Electoral College is the system in which the President of the United States is elected.The simplest explanation of the Electoral College is that each state gets a certain number of electoral votes, the candidate getting a majority of the state's popular vote winning that state's votes, and the one getting the most electoral votes winning the election. As the system doesn't use popular vote as is, a large portion of people's votes go to waste.
- Ignatius T. Electoral was a stow-away on the fourth and smallest of the ships which Christopher Columbus used to travel to America. The Mamacita was a much smaller ship than the ships Leon, Pinto and Santa Monica, and Electoral spent the entire voyage hiding behind some boxes that were filled with clothes to donate to Goodwill. Upon landing at Washington D.C., Electoral waited until everyone else was off the ship and then pretended to be a guy who worked for Goodwill who had been sent to pick up the boxes. He took their contents and used them to start Electoral College.
- The Electoral College is the body which usually elects the President of the United States of America. The members of the Electoral College are called Electors. Electors are themselves elected. A faithless elector is an elector who does not vote for the candidate which they were instructed to vote for.
- The Electoral College consists of the electors appointed by each state who formally elect the President and Vice President of the United States. Since 1964, there have been 538 electors in each presidential election. Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the Constitution specifies how many electors each state is entitled to have and that each state's legislature decides how its electors are to be chosen. U.S. territories are not represented in the Electoral College. The Electoral College is an example of an indirect election, as opposed to a direct election by United States citizens (such as for members of the United States House of Representatives). The voters of each state, and the District of Columbia, vote for electors to be the authorized constitutional participants in a presidential ele
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| - The Electoral College consists of the electors appointed by each state who formally elect the President and Vice President of the United States. Since 1964, there have been 538 electors in each presidential election. Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the Constitution specifies how many electors each state is entitled to have and that each state's legislature decides how its electors are to be chosen. U.S. territories are not represented in the Electoral College. The Electoral College is an example of an indirect election, as opposed to a direct election by United States citizens (such as for members of the United States House of Representatives). The voters of each state, and the District of Columbia, vote for electors to be the authorized constitutional participants in a presidential election. In early U.S. history, some state laws delegated the choice of electors to the state legislature. Electors are free to vote for anyone eligible to be President, but in practice pledge to vote for specific candidates and voters cast ballots for favored presidential and vice presidential candidates by voting for correspondingly pledged electors. The Twelfth Amendment provides for each elector to cast one vote for President and one vote for Vice President. It also specifies how a President and Vice President are elected. The Twenty-third Amendment specifies how many electors the District of Columbia is entitled to have. The merits of the Electoral College are controversial. A 2001 Gallup article noted that "a majority of Americans have continually expressed support for the notion of an official amendment of the U.S. Constitution that would allow for direct election of the president" since one of the first-ever public polls on the matter in 1944, and Gallup found no significant change in 2004. Critics argue that the Electoral College is archaic, inherently undemocratic and gives certain swing states disproportionate influence in selecting the President and Vice President. Proponents argue that the Electoral College is an important, distinguishing feature of federalism in the United States and that it protects the rights of smaller states. Numerous constitutional amendments have been introduced in the Congress seeking to alter the Electoral College or replace it with a direct popular vote; however, no proposal has ever passed the Congress.
- The electoral college consists of electors from each state. Some states allow electors to vote for whoever they want, while other states levy penalties against electors who vote differently than the public (called "faithless electors").
- Electoral College refers to a set of electors (other than ordinary voters) selected to elect an individual to fill a particular office. Examples include the contemporary U.S. Presidential electoral college, the contemporary French Senatorial electoral college, the contemporary College of Cardinals who elect the Pope and the college of prince-electors of the Holy Roman Empire.
- The Electoral College, also known as the Electoral Dubbing University or simply Elect Dub U, is an educational establishment which focuses on Presidential election analysis, basketball and liquor brewing.
- The Electoral College is the body which usually elects the President of the United States of America. The members of the Electoral College are called Electors. Electors are themselves elected. A faithless elector is an elector who does not vote for the candidate which they were instructed to vote for. The Electoral College was introduced by the framers of the US Constitution to prevent a popular but unsuitable candidate from taking power. Many reformers would like to see the Electoral College scrapped in favour of a direct election, others would like to see the electoral college votes for each state allocated in proportion to the popular vote, this has already happened in some states.
- The Electoral College is the system in which the President of the United States is elected.The simplest explanation of the Electoral College is that each state gets a certain number of electoral votes, the candidate getting a majority of the state's popular vote winning that state's votes, and the one getting the most electoral votes winning the election. As the system doesn't use popular vote as is, a large portion of people's votes go to waste.
- Ignatius T. Electoral was a stow-away on the fourth and smallest of the ships which Christopher Columbus used to travel to America. The Mamacita was a much smaller ship than the ships Leon, Pinto and Santa Monica, and Electoral spent the entire voyage hiding behind some boxes that were filled with clothes to donate to Goodwill. Upon landing at Washington D.C., Electoral waited until everyone else was off the ship and then pretended to be a guy who worked for Goodwill who had been sent to pick up the boxes. He took their contents and used them to start Electoral College.
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