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Electoral votes determine the President of the United States. Every state and DC are awarded a certain number of electoral votes with which to elect the President. The number is the total number of representative the state has in Congress in both houses total. Since every state has two senators and at least one representative to the House, every state has at least 3 electoral votes. The states choose as many electors as it has electoral votes and these electors elect the president. The electors are elected by popular vote in each state and each candidate for elector swears in advance whom he will vote for .
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∙ 6y agoElectoral votes determine the President of the United States. Every state and DC are awarded a certain number of electoral votes with which to elect the President. 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. The electors in each state are elected in the presidential election and swear in advance to vote for the presidential candidate who wins the election in their state. Electors meet in their respective state capitals (electors for the District of Columbia meet within the District) on the Monday after the second Wednesday in December, at which time they cast their electoral votes on separate ballots for president and vice-president. Each state then forwards the election results to the President of the U.S. Senate, the Archivist of the United States, the state's Secretary of State, and the chief judge of the United States district court where those electors met. A joint session of Congress takes place on January 6 in the calendar year immediately following the meetings of the presidential electors. The electoral votes are officially tabulated at the joint session of Congress and the winner of the election is officially declared.
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The president is directly elected by?
The electorial college.
What does is mean to have a popular vote?
The popular vote is when the people vote for the president. in actuallity the people don't elect the president. the electorial college do. they win states with the popular vote then the delegates from those states vote for the candidate their state chooses.
What does a vote of not voting mean?
If you vote you vote and if you do not vote then you do not vote
Who appoints the president?
John Quincy Adams
Do the people really vote for president?
No, the vote for president is called the popular vote and that does not count. When you cast your vote for president, you are actually voting for the electors to vote for the president.
What is the purpose of the state popular vote?
"Popular Vote" is the majority of a state's vote. If a candidate for president with the most popular votes in a state gets all of that state's electorial votes. An Example: More than half of Nevada's vote goes to candidate B than A, then Candidate B gets the electorial vote for Nevada which is five.
What is the purpose of the popular votes?
"Popular Vote" is the majority of a state's vote. If a candidate for president with the most popular votes in a state gets all of that state's electorial votes. An Example: More than half of Nevada's vote goes to candidate B than A, then Candidate B gets the electorial vote for Nevada which is five.
Does one vote make a difference?
# YES ONE VOTE MAKES A DIFFERENCE BECAUSE SAY IF THE ELECTORIAL VOTES OF THE REPUBLICAN IS 155 AND THE ELECTORIAL VOTES FOR DEMOCRATS IS 388 AND YOU WANTEDD THE REPUBLICANS TO WIN IF THAT ONE PERSON WOULD HAVE VOTED THE WHOLE SCOREBORED COULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT AND THE REPUBLICANS COULD OF WON.
Was Samuel tilden elected president?
No, he was never elected. He lost to Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876 by one electorial vote.
Why does New York have 29 electorial vote?
The electoral votes of each State are equal to the total number of its Senators (2) and representatives.
Why can't a kid vote?
because they honestly don't pay attention to the electorial stuff and would just vote for who ever or who there parents are voting for+ there's a law where you have to be 18 so yeah
Even though Barack Obama won the popular vote on November 4 can McCain still win the election after the electoral college on December 15?
yes. popular vote doesnt matter... electorial vote is what matters!! Obama~!!!
How does the electorial college work?
Whoever wins the popular vote in a state gets all the points. The first one to 270 wins the election
What is Antonia Nathan famous for?
She is the first woman to have received an electorial vote running for vice-President in the United States. She was in the 1972 Libertarian part.
How many electorial college votes does Georgia have?
Georgia has 15 electorial votes.
In what presidential election did the loser get more of the popular vote?
George W. Bush vs Al Gore. Al Gore won the popular vote but did not win the election. the elections in 1824, 1876, 1888 also saw the loser in the popular vote win the electorial college vote and become President.
Did everyone in all thirteen colonies vote for George Washington for his first term?
The electorial college cast all votes for George Washington. Since that time, no other president has been elected unanamously. At least one delegate has withheld his vote to maintian the tradition.
