How do electors work?
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Go to this website and click on the United States of America flag on the left side of screen. I think it pretty much answers your questions.\nhttp://fairvote.org/
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Our votes are "Counted" in each state and "members" of the "electoral collage" relay the number of votes from the state they represent (or do they ?) until they are added together , and the winner is chosen - Like in the last election down in Florida - (wink-wink ) The winner has already been bought....I mean voted for ....silly me !!!!
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The Constitution mandates that the President and Vice President be chosen by Electors (members of the Electoral College). Only the Electoral college vote is used determine who becomes President. There is actually no national popular vote as far as the Constitution is concerned. See Article II and the 12th Amendment. \n\nThe Electors are chosen by the citizens of the states, according to laws established by the states. So, each state determines the formula for how the popular state vote is converted to an electoral vote, and then directs the state's Electors to vote that way.\n\nMost states allocate Electoral votes all-or-nothing, based on which candidate gets the highest number of votes in the state. So, if a candidate gets 51% of the popular votes in a state, that candidate gets 100% of the Electoral votes for that state.\n\nThe problem with the Electoral college is two-fold. First, it results in situations where a person loses the national popular vote, but because of the way the formula is applied ends up getting a majority of Electoral votes.\n\nThe other problem is that the all-or-nothing system effectively locks us into a two-party system, since a candidate must get the majority of votes in a state before ANY of the Electoral votes count. So, in a three-way race, someone could easily get 2/3 of the national popular vote, yet still fall below the threshold in every single state and thus end up with NO electoral votes at all.
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If the Electoral College fails to award a majority to a candidate, the President is elected by the Senate and the Vice President is elected by the House of Representatives.  If that happens, then theoretically ANYBODY can get to either position, whether they were candidates or not.\n\nThis hasn't happened - yet. So far, the Electoral College has always come up with a winner, though not always the same winner as the voters had in mind.
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People elect the electoral college who elects the president
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TODAY we are having an ELECTION...provided you are a REGISTERED VOTER, you go to the POLLING LOCATION in your VOTING DISTRICT and SIGN IN...then, you FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS given by ELECTION WORKERS who will tell you how to CAST YOUR VOTE for the CANDIDATE(S) and/or REFERENDUM QUESTIONS on the BALLOT...then you LEAVE and LIE YOUR A55 OFF to the EXIT POLLERS...any more QUESTIONS?
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The 23rd Ammendment allowed the District of Columbia to have electors vote for President of the United States:\n\n\nAmmendment XXIII.\n\nSection 1.\n\nThe District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct:\n\nA number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment.\n\nProposed 1960 - Ratified 1961
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Do you mean the electoral system? Each state has electoral votes based on their population. This was meant as a check on straight numbers of votes. States with bigger populations have more power.
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In some states, the state legislature has to vote to certify the elections.  In others, it is the Executive branch.
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No they are Voted in by the people of their States, just like the President is. They are really supposed to be public servants, but they sure don't act that way.........>>>>
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In a way they do...and people vote them in.  People don't have to vote for a person that they don't think is 'trained'.
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the founding fathers designed this system because they thought that at the time the population was to uneducated to make such critical decisions as choosing the president. in fact the public couldn't choose senators either--they were chosen by the state legislatures. in any event the electoral college is a system that gives one vote per senator/representative that a state has. the electors are mainly chosen by the party that carried the state and when casting the ballots for the candidate that won the state the elector actually has no obligation to use his vote on that candidate other than the knowledge that should he vote for anyone else he would be committing political suicide
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By way of Electorial Process that was established in our constitution in article two. That is the way we have always voted for a president except during the formation years of our government when we had one year presidents. George Bush won the electorial vote and thats the way it was. The Democrats demanded a recount and the Supreme Court ruled the the recount was final. Its that simple and documented so go read it.
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Remember, the Electoral College is ONLY for presidential elections.  We have "direct" elections of all other electable federal offices now.\nStates are assigned electoral votes by adding the number of members is has in the U.S. House of Representatives + its number of Senators (2).  The "electors" themselves are chosen by a candidate's political party.  They are usually people who have been in the party for a long time, or teachers (civics lessons for their kids) or such people.  \nOn election day, when you vote for U.S. President, you're actually voting for the electors who have pledged to cast their ballot for that individual.  It's a winner-take-all system in all but two states, so the candidate who has the most votes gets the entire slate of electors from that state.\nA few weeks later, the electors of that state gather at their state capitols and cast their ballots.  Although they have pledged to vote for a candidate, they are not bound by federal law to do so; and there have been "faithless" electors who have changed their votes (although none affecting elections in "modern times")\nThen, the votes are gathered and sent to the President of the Senate for tabulation.  The votes are counted, and a new president and vice-president are named.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Electoral_College
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Like it or not, they are empowered to do a job by the laws in place in that jurisdiction. The laws were voted on by the community. \n\nThat's the way it works in a democracy.
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C. \n\nTechnically the answer could be argued for either, so if you picked A, and it's wrong, but can give a good argument, then you may get credit for it.  A good argument would say "The people of the nation elect a president because it is their votes that make the decision on who the state casts a vote for.  The people are a necessary part of the process of the way the electoral college is executed - de facto vs. de jure."\n\nIf the answer is A and you picked C, then I would argue the following. "The electoral college's electors actually are the only votes that matter when electing a president.  The chosen elector for a state could choose to go against who his state votes for, therefore, the electoral college system is responsible for electing a president. de jure vs. de facto. "
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Its the Electoral college, not "electorial".  \n\nYes, you're right.  The electors could choose someone other than the candidates the people selected.  This is very unlikely though as the electors are usually very dedicated and loyal members of their political parties. The founding fathers did not trust the people as completely as you may think.  This is a provision which is included to keep the people from electing say, Cap'n Crunch who meets the technical requirements of being 35 years old, a natural born citizen (albeit a cartoon citizen), and a resident of the US for 14 years, but who probably would not be able to perform much better than our current POTUS\n\nUh...well, maybe he could!\n\n;O)\n\nNot very democratic, I know.