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What type of votes actually elect the president-?
Electoral votes are the type of votes that actual elect the president.
How many electoral votes do you have to win to become president?
270 votes from the electoral college are required to become president.
Does the president need a majority of the electoral votes or the majority of the popular vote to win?
majority on electoral votes
Who are the group of people that cast official votes to elect the president called?
This group is called the electoral college; its members are called electors and the votes it casts are called electoral votes.
How many electoral votes are needed to elect a United states president?
270 electoral votes in the Electoral College are needed to win the U.S. presidency. Each state has electoral votes equal to the total of the 2 representative the state has in the U.S. Senate plus the number of representative the state has in the House of Representatives. Since every state has two senators and at least one representative to the House, every state has at least 3 electoral votes. The District of Columbia gets 3 electoral votes. Therefore, the total number of electoral votes is 538 - 100 (senators) + 435 (representatives) + 3 (for DC). A majority is 270 - one more than half of the total number of 538.
