The District of Columbia is the exception. The system goes back to the early days of the United States.
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The Electoral College chooses the president based on state vote totals and recent history has shown the winning candidate for president does not need to earn the most individual votes.
Why vote if electoral college decides. Even in 2020 the Electoral College still upholds this old form of white supremacy causing Blacks and Latino votes to be silenced overpowered by the will of electors. According to the NPVIC including Colorados Electoral College votes the coalition currently represents 196 electoral votes. The winning president needs 270 electoral college votes.
The candidate who won the majority of Electoral College votes was the president and the second-place. So to answer Lois question. For example if a candidate wins 501 of the vote in Texas they are awarded all.
It doesnt have representation in Congress but it gets three electoral votes There are 538. Generally states award all their electoral college votes to whoever won the poll of ordinary voters in the state. To date the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact has been enacted by 12 states that hold 196 electoral votes.
If they dont get 270 Electoral College votes it goes to the house of representatives Goidel said. In other words 4 percent of the United States population in the countrys smallest states gets 8 percent of the Electoral. Colorado which has nine electoral votes will decide on whether to join the compact through a ballot measure this November.
The Constitution states that each state has as many electoral college votes as it has senators and members of Congress also stating that there needs to be a majority of electoral college votes to win the presidency. The electoral college not only makes the voting process unfair but open the process up to be abused by one candidate Donald Trump for example who only cares about the vote of those 270 and could care less about the millions others in the rest of the country. Ill presume that youre not a US.
The Electoral College decides who wins the presidency and it was created not only from an elitist point of view but a racist slave-owning view of governing. Our votes decide who is in the electoral college and the electoral college votes to decide who wins the election. Electoral College votes are allocated the same way.
It hasnt come to that since. In 1804 12th Amendment to the Constitution made sure that electors designate their votes for president and vice president but the 12th Amendment leaves in place a tie breaking system established by the Constitution by which the House of Representatives breaks a tie on presidential electoral votes and the Senate breaks a tie on vice presidential electoral votes. Citizen as this is something all US.
The Electoral College is a winner take all system because the winner of the popular vote in each state gets all of the states electoral votes except in Maine and Nebraska which award their. Because the voters elect the electoral college and in almost all cases they are bound to vote for the candidate who you voted for. The Electoral College has 538 members with the number allocated to each state based on how many representatives it has in the House plus its two senators.
The original electoral college was the Congress and the Senate who got together every four years. Each party in each state picks some people theyd like to have act as electors they pick party loyalists who will vote for the party candidate. If enough states joined representing more than 270 votes the number needed to win the Electoral College the group could essentially guarantee the winner of the presidency is the winner of the popular vote.
The electoral college isnt some independent unaccountable body of President-pickers who get to choose freely. Tara Golshan writes For one theres the way the Electoral College disproportionately props up smaller states by guaranteeing every state three electors. Why should one states vote or the vote of the electoral college count more than any other American citizens.
Because of the distribution of electoral votes some believe the Electoral College actually gives an advantage to some states. In some elections the Electoral. Citizens SHOULD have been taught in their Seventh Grade civics classes.
Why do we still have people vote if the Electoral College ultimately determines the outcome of the election anyway. What is the point of a popular vote if the electoral college decides the president of the United States. The compact would go into effect once enough states with a majority of Electoral College votes agree.
It also happened in 2000 when Democrat Al Gore defeated Republican George W. Our votes decide who is in the Electoral College and the Electoral College votes to decide who wins the election. The electoral college is the institution that is responsible for selecting the President of the United States.
The public ballot in each election decides whos in the electoral college. In the first four US. Presidential elections each Elector cast two ballots for president.
Bush in the popular vote by more than 500000 votes but Bush secured enough electoral college votes to win the. Doesnt have a national election per se.
