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What gives Washington D.C. an electoral vote and allows the people of Washington D.C. to vote for president and vice president?
The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution allows the residents of the District of Columbia to have an equal number of votes with least populous state. Wyoming has the smallest population and three electoral votes. Therefore, the residents of Washington, D.C. are also receive three electoral votes.
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What group of people are officially responsible for electing a president?
The electoral college is the group of people who officially elect the US president.
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.
Who elects the president after the people have voted?
The people vote for the Electors who in turn vote for the President. The group is called the Electoral College
What is the body of electors that represent the peoples vote in choosing the president?
The people (read: noncriminal citizens above the age of 18) of that country. The people of the United States elect the President by Popular Vote, but the Electoral College is the body that officially elects the President into office. (There have been 4 Presidents elected into office by the Electoral College that lost the popular vote, which means that the majority of people didn't vote for that president. http://americanhistory.about.com/od/uspresidents/f/pres_unpopular.htm)
What margin is required to choose the president in the house?
If no candidate for the presidency wins a simple majority (51%) of the total number of electoral votes, then the House of Representatives have the power to choose the President of the US. Each state gets one vote. The margin required to choose the president in the House is a majority of those voting. The only time this happened, in 1824, the representatives of some of the states could not agree on how to vote and so those states did not vote.
