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Electoral college - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia An electoral college is a set of electors who are empowered as a deliberative body to elect someone to a particular office. During Brazil's military rule period, the president was elected by an electoral college constituting senators, deputies, state deputies and lawmakers in the cities. Another type of electoral college is used by the British Labour Party to choose its leader. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Electoral_college   (627 words)

3PT - Electoral College Primer Makeup and operation of the electoral college itself are tightly defined by the Constitution, but the method of choosing electors is left to the states. The main danger of faithless electors is that the candidate who wins the popular vote could wind up one or two votes short of a majority in the electoral college and could lose the election on a technicality. Many see the apportioning of the electoral college votes by states as a basic flaw, because it gives each of the smaller states at least three electoral votes, even though on a straight population basis some might be entitled to only one or two. www.ksg.harvard.edu /case/3pt/electoral.html#pro   (2177 words)

Electoral College - dKosopedia In defense of the Electoral College system, physicist Alan Natapoff considered the effects of the electoral system, and of districted elections in general, on "vote power;" that is, the probability that a single vote will effect the outcome. The electoral college results of recent Presidential elections is the starting point for analysis of different political and cultural Ideologies in the United States called the Red Blue Divide. Because the Constitution provides that electors be delegated as the state legislature decides, no change to the Constitution is neccessary to effectively eliminate the electoral college except as a rubber stamp on the national popular vote. www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Electoral_College   (1527 words)

The Electoral College The Electoral College has performed its function for over 200 years (and in over 50 presidential elections) by ensuring that the President of the United States has both sufficient popular support to govern and that his popular support is sufficiently distributed throughout the country to enable him to govern effectively. In the Electoral College system, the States serve as the Centurial groups (though they are not, of course, based on wealth), and the number of votes per State is determined by the size of each State's Congressional delegation. And the Electoral College was designed to represent each State's choice for the presidency (with the number of each State's electoral votes being the number of its Senators plus the number of its Representatives). jceb.co.jackson.mo.us /fun_stuff/electoral_college.htm   (7429 words)

BBC NEWS World Americas Q&A: The US Electoral College Each state has a number of electors in the Electoral College equal to the total of its US senators (always two) and its representatives, which are determined by the size of the state's population. In 2000 an elector from the District of Columbia abstained. The electors are chosen by the parties before the election, often in a vote at a convention. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/3736580.stm   (813 words)

Constitutional Topic: The Electoral College - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net The Electoral College insulates the election of the President from the people by having the people elect not the person of the President, but the person of an Elector who is pledged to vote for a specific person for President. The Electoral College, proposed by James Wilson, was the compromise that the Constitutional Convention reached. Electors are chosen by the states and the Electors elect the President and Vice-President. www.usconstitution.net /consttop_elec.html   (1418 words)

What is the Electoral College In the Electoral College system the states assume the role of a centurial group and the number of votes that they are entitled to depend on the size of the state& Congressional delegation. Originally, the purpose of the College of Electors was to have the most knowledgeable and informed individuals from each state of the Union cast their votes for the president assuming that they voted solely on the basis of merit. The College of Electors was likened to the Centurial Assembly of the Roman Republic where adult male citizens of Rome were divided into groups of 100 who cast one vote in favor or against proposals of the Roman Republic. www.votescount.com /books/elecoll.htm   (1116 words)

CRS Report: RL30804 - The Electoral College: An Overview and Analysis of Reform Proposals - NLE Indeed, critics of the electoral college system caution that the presence of viable and well funded third-party or independent presidential candidates, who may be able to garner electoral votes by carrying a plurality of the votes in statewide elections, increase the likelihood of contingent election. Since state electoral college delegations are equal to the combined total of each state's Senate and House delegation, the composition of the electoral college thus appears to be weighted in favor of the small states. The President and the Vice President of the United States are elected indirectly by an institution known as the electoral college. www.ncseonline.org /nle/crsreports/government/gov-39.cfm   (8754 words)

NARA Federal Register U. S. Electoral College - About the Electoral College The Electoral College was established by the founding fathers as a compromise between election of the president by Congress and election by popular vote. The Electoral College, administered by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), is not a place, it is a process that began as part of the original design of the U.S. Constitution. The Office of the Federal Register coordinates the functions of the Electoral College on behalf of the Archivist of the United States, the States, the Congress, and the American People. www.archives.gov /federal-register/electoral-college/about.html   (305 words)

Electoral College Electoral College reform is obviously a very complex, multi-faceted subject, calling for judgments involving political principles and mean of implementing them. Memorials are being introduced in state legislatures calling for the direct election of the President and abolition of the Electoral College. Electoral votes of the state are allocated to candidates according to the proportion in which the popular vote was cast for slates of electors (if the office is maintained) or for the actual candidates (if office of elector is abolished). home.pacbell.net /barbward/two1-6.htm   (14643 words)

electoral college Electoral College Votes by State, 2004 Presidential Elections - Alabama 9 Alaska 3 Arizona 10 Arkansas 6 California 55 Colorado 9 Connecticut 7 Delaware 3 District... The illegitimate president: minority vote dilution and the electoral college. The Electoral College - The next step in the process is the nomination of electors in each state, according to its laws. www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0816970.html   (382 words)

The Electoral College However, if the Electoral College were abolished and the popular vote tally were used, each side might find it useful to campaign in Massachusetts, even though the state might remain in the Democratic column. They claim that the Electoral College causes candidates to ignore states where the outcome is certain in favor of states where polls say the contest is close. The 2000 presidential election generated renewed interest in the Electoral College. www.factmonster.com /spot/campaign2000race.html   (568 words)

Electoral College The Electoral College is a clumsy device that never would be imitated by a state for electing its governor -- or by a town electing its dogcatcher. Justification for the Electoral College is rooted "in racism and sexism," Amar says, noting no other political bodies (whether foreign nations or our own states and cities) think enough of the Electoral College system to use it for their elections. The winner-take-all system (except in Maine and Nebraska where electors can split the state's votes) is unfair to third-party candidates such as Ross Perot, whose 18.9 percent of the 1996 vote was rewarded with 0.0 percent of the Electoral College vote. www.fairvote.org /op_eds/electoral_college.htm   (3472 words)

Electoral College Calculator - version 2.2 On election day, voters are actually voting for Electoral College members who promise to vote for the candidates of their respective political parties. To use the Electoral College calculator, select states by picking the state name on the list box, or clicking near the center of the state on the map. Each state is allocated "electoral votes" equal to the total number of Senators and Representatives allocated to that state. www.grayraven.com /ec   (452 words)

270 to Win: An Interactive Map and History of the Electoral College 270towin.com is an interactive Electoral College map for 2008 and a history of Presidential elections in the United States. Since electoral votes are generally allocated on an "all or none" basis by state, the election of a U.S President is about winning the popular vote in enough states to achieve 270 electoral votes, a majority of the 538 that are available. It is not about getting the most overall popular votes, as we saw in the 2000 election, when the electoral vote winner (Bush) and the popular vote winner (Gore) were different. www.270towin.com   (201 words)

CNN.com Specials The president and vice president are elected by 538 Electoral College voters, one per senator and representative from each state, who usually cast a ballot for the candidate who wins the popular vote. Should the Electoral College system still be used to select the president? • In 26 states and Washington D.C., laws require electors to follow the popular vote. www.cnn.com /ELECTION/2004/special/president/electoral.college   (216 words)

Meta-Analysis of State Polls - election.princeton.edu The way to do this calculation is to see how much the Electoral College win probability is changed by incrementing a state's margin by some fraction F, where F is inversely proportional to the state's voting population. I sent graphics of electoral maps and of the jerseyvotes calculation, which were promptly lost in the mad shuffle before going on air. The median electoral vote (EV) estimate is very sensitive to swings in reported opinion because of the winner-take-all mechanism of awarding EV. election.princeton.edu   (11833 words)

The Electoral College The Electoral College system, especially in a close election, is subject to the mischief that might be caused by disloyal--or even bribed--electors. When the winner of the Electoral College is not the candidate who received the most votes of the people, the new president will face questions about his legitimacy. The Electoral College, in recognizing a role for states in the selection of the president, reminds us of their importance in our federal system. www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/electoralcoll.htm   (2056 words)

Electoral College Reform During the 2000 presidental election, it became painfully obvious that the United States needs to reform its procedure for choosing a president, the electoral college. The slow evolution of the electoral college from a restrictive, elitist system is not yet complete. Preserves the historical structure of the electoral college and the United States unique federal system, balancing power between levels of government. www.fakeisthenewreal.org /reform/reform.html   (424 words)

David S. Bennahum: Abolishing the Electoral College The electoral college system was put in place to keep control over the popular election process; electoral college representatives don't actually have to vote the same as the citizens they represent. That's 6% of the votes in the Electoral College, yet their population is 7.6 million, or 2% of the national total. Not only does the Electoral College ensure that a Presidential Candidate be palatable to most of the States in the country (as Luke White mentioned), it also ensures a final vote that has zero statistic error. www.bennahum.com /david/2004/09/abolishing_the_.html   (4378 words)

Will Hively, Math Against Tyranny, Discover Magazine, November, 1996 An electoral college does rob voters of power if everyone, in effect, walks into a voting booth and flips a coin to decide between two equally appealing candidates, Tweedledee and Tweedledum. In 1876, Samuel J. Tilden lost to Rutherford B. Hayes by one electoral vote, though he received 50.9 percent of the popular vote to Hayes’s 47.9 percent; an extraordinary commission awarded 20 disputed electoral votes to Hayes. A large electorate, they believed, falls prey to passions, rumors, and "tumult." Electors were supposed to consider each candidate’s merits more judiciously, not blindly follow the popular will. www.avagara.com /e_c/reference/00012001.htm   (5068 words)

Presidential Elections and the Electoral College: U.S. Congressional Documents Students and researchers on the subject of the presidential elections and the electoral college may find it useful to consult the Law Library of Congress Research Guide to Election Resources, a resource guide to both electronic and printed materials on the subject. A wide variety of materials on presidential elections and the electoral college may be found in A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation. He lost the electoral college vote to William McKinley despite his diligent campaigning. memory.loc.gov /ammem/amlaw/lwec.html   (454 words)

Electoral College The Electoral College is made up of 535 people who are responsible for voting on behalf of their state. Learn how the Electoral College is driving the Bush and Gore campaigns by reading this Washington Post article, Analysis: Campaign 2000 and the Electoral College. Since the founding of the United States, the final outcome of every presidential election has been decided by the several hundred electors in the Electoral College. www.learnersonline.com /weekly/archive2K/week41   (602 words)

EC: The US Electoral College Web Zine Here's the text of the failed constitutional amendment that would have replaced the Electoral College with a direct vote as low as 40% of the voters. EC sets the record straight on alleged failures of the Electoral College system. Resources, References & Stories about the much maligned U.S. Electoral College www.avagara.com /e_c   (144 words)

Online NewsHour Vote 2004 Politics 101 Electoral College Map The number of electoral votes indicated for each state and in the tally boxes below the map reflect the re-allocation that took place after the 2000 census. The yellow lines in the tally boxes below the map indicate the 270 electoral votes needed for a presidential election victory. Click on each state to see how a win or loss there will affect the overall outcome of the 2004 election and to formulate winning combinations. www.pbs.org /newshour/vote2004/politics101/politics101_ecmap.html   (179 words)

RealClear Politics - Polls At the state level, using the RCP state averages to allocate the Electoral College, President Bush would win 306 - 232. In our initial electoral analysis we suggested that the election would boil down to Florida and Ohio, with Kerry having to win one of those two states and President Bush simply needing to carry them both to gain reelection. Based on the final RCP State Averages, President Bush is projected to win 296 Electoral Votes to 242 for Senator Kerry. www.realclearpolitics.com /Presidential_04/RCP_EC.html   (1146 words)

The Electoral College A Brief History of the Electoral College along with pro's and con's and a selected bibliography. The Distribution of Electoral College Votes amongst the States (1981-1990 and 1991-2000) For Electoral College and popular votes in past presedential elections, link to the Electoral College Home Page of the National Archives on www.fec.gov /pages/ecmenu2.htm   (72 words)

Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004 Electoral Vote Predictor 2004: Kerry 251 Bush 286 I might just track the Senate elections in 2006, but it is a bit early now. This site has far more about the election than just the map. www.electoral-vote.com   (36 words)

Electoral College The Electoral College by William C. Kimberling, Deputy Director, FEC Office of Election Admin The Sleeping Giant: Still Asleep?The Role of the Electoral College.. -- The Electoral College: Reform Proposals in the 108th Congress - CRS Report fpc.state.gov /fpc/c9814.htm   (149 words)

2004 Presidential Electoral College Predictions Picture with the electoral predictions page views between October 16 and election day. Exit polls update: several readers have warned me that CNN changed the exit polls at 1am to reflect actual results. www.econ.umn.edu /~amoro/Research/presprobs.html   (137 words)

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