how many electoral votes does it take for an act of congress?
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think you are confused.  electoral college is for Presidential elections only.\n\nIn the congress, a simple majority wins, unless the bill falls under certain circumstances, such as an ammendment to the Constitution.
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538 - 435 from the house of representatives, 100 from the senate, and 3 from Washington DC.  The constitution states that the capital is to have as many representatives as if it were a state "but in no event more than the smallest state" or something to that effect.  The smallest state has 3 representatives - 2 in the Senate (house of equal representation) and 1 in the House of Representatives (house of proportional representation).  The senators and house members are not the same people who make up the electoral college, though.  The only thing that's the same is the number of representatives for each state.\n270 is the minimum necessary to win (50 % + 1).
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It's in Article V of the Constitution.\n\n"The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress"\n\nSo, either Congress or 34+ state legislatures (>2/3) propose it. And then 38+ states (>3/4) must approve it, either by a vote of the state legislatures, or by state conventions as defined by state laws.
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Only when there is a tie vote in the Senate\nNone of the above\nOnly Congress can declare war\nFrom the President\nThere is a law against it\nLobbying\nEvery two years\nBy adding the number of Senators and Representatives that the state has in Congress\nAnother national election is held \nThe House of Representatives\nThe Garfield Act\nEleven\nWorld War II\n12 \nRight to Remain Silent \nFor life\nThe Supreme Court\nThe First Amendment\nTwelve\nTwenty-Nine\nCongress\ndamn, im ashamed at how many i had to guess at.
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a constitutional amendment must be passed by 2/3's of each house of congress and then approved by 3/4's of the state legislatures.
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Usually less than 40% for a mid-term elections.\n\nBut with all the issues and control of both houses of congress up for grabs, voter turnout got up to 40% nationwide, more in areas that had tight races.\n\nHere's an article from CBS News detailing Voter Turnout.
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A few months.\n\nEach state's electors meet in their respective state capitals in December, 41 days following the election, at which time they cast their electoral votes. Thus the Electoral College never meets as one body. The electoral votes are then sealed and sent to the President of the Senate (i.e. the sitting Vice President of the United States), who retains them until the new Congress convenes in January. At that time, the votes are opened and counted in the presence of both houses of Congress. The candidate who receives a majority of electoral votes for President becomes President, and the candidate who receives a majority of electoral votes for Vice President becomes Vice President.
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Questions about the house of reps. and senate?\n1. If 55% of the house were republicans and 45% were democrats how mant members of each party would there be?\nRep. ________\nDem. ________\n\n2. If all 435 members of the house voted, and a bill passed in the house by 17 votes, what was the vote?\n\nFor_______\nagainst______\n\n\n3. It takes 2/3 vote in congress to overried a presidential veto. how mant votes are need in the house ____? how many in the senate____?
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The elctoral college was to assist when we did not have the ability to count every vote.  The electoral college would take the majority of votes for their state and vote for that paticular canidate.\n\nIt also prevents heavily populated states from controlling the election by forcing each electoral vote to count.  What has happened is states with the most electoral votes become key areas with the most visits by the canidates.  How often have presidential canidates vistied Florida, California, Ohio vs Alaska, South Dakota, Utah?\n\nEven more important, the United States is not a democracy, it is a republic.  With a republic officials are supposed to take their direction from us instead of each of our votes being counted.\n\nDon't like it?  Vote them out of office.  Not just Bush Bashers or Clinton Bashers but all of them!  Look how long some folks have been in the Senate or Congress!  If they are not doing what you want vote them out.  Why in the world would any politician listen to us whine about something but not use our authority to get them out of office.
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It's never been done.  \nUlysses S. Grant won the 1872 election against his main opponent Horace Greeley with 286 electoral college votes.  Greeley recieved 3, but they were never counted.  There were, however, four other candidates.  Thomas Hendricks recieved 42 votes, B. Gratz Brown took 18, Charles Jenkins won 2 and David Davis recieved 1 electoral vote.   \n\nit's almost happened a few times; \nIn 1820 Monroe beat John Adams 231-1 \nIn 1936 FDR beat Alfred Landon 523-8\nAnd Reagan beat Walter Mondale in 1984 525-13
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Your question isn't really specific enough to answer, because I don't know if you're talking about city, county, state, or US laws.  Every state, city, and county has their own system for doing things, so it would depend on where you live as to what the answer to your quesiton is.\n\nIf you're talking about US laws, the Legislative Brach (Congress and House of Representatives) introduces a law and if it passes by more than a 50% majority, it goes to the Executive Branch (president) to sign it.  If the president veteos it, the Legislative Branch can still pass it if they can get a 2/3 majority vote.  After it is passed, it is then sent to the Judicial Branch (Supreme Court) to make sure the law is Constitutional.
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An amendment to the constitution. Congress can only pass so many laws about voting, because in general elections are left up to the states. There's very little way for Congress to make anything uniform if it is left up to the states.
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During the time of the Convention a number of issues were addressed.  One of the primary concerns was how was the Congress of the United States to be structured and how would the members gain membership.  The suggested approaches were from a single house with hereditary members to a bicameral congress with all members elected directly from the people.  \n\nThe final version was a bicameral congressional structure with the upper house membership comprised of two members from each State and these elected by the legislature of the State from which they come.  The lower house was to have members in numbers defined by population and this would result in each State having unique numbers of representatives, and these representatives would represent the people of a given district and only the citizens of that district could vote for that representative.  \n\nIn this process people would be represented by a single directly elected representative.  The States each represented by two representatives.\n\nTo carry this further, the President would be elected by delegates to the Electoral College and delegates would be elected in a manner singularly directed by each State.\n\nThe members of the Supreme Court would be selected by the President with advise and consent of the Senate.\n\nThe pattern here should be obvious, that is, popular election of these offices was not desired by the Founders.  Even the members of the lower house were elected by small districts within each State.  \n\nI’m only guessing that this is what you were asking about, because there were other issues and your question wasn’t clear.
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The number of States. The number of Stars on the Flag. The size of Congress.
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The parties (Democrat and Republican) vote for their candidate they want to represent them!  The electoral college has a certain number of people according to the size of their state.  It adds up to 536 and the candidate needs 270 votes to win.  They try to get to get the higher populated states such as Florida, California, Ohio, and Texas so they win.  I believe the voter's votes are factored in also.
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it is by the number of electoral college votes.  these are based on the populations of the states the larger the state the larger the number (ie cali and florida are big montana is low) it is not by majority vote or popular vote as some call it.
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No, it didn't even make it for a vote in the Senate. The House is supposedly going to try and pass it eventually, but without even a majoirty in the Senate there's no way it will ever pass. Even if it did, 3/4 of the states don't want it to pass.