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They are called electors. As a group they form the electoral college.
Yes, because the voters don't choose the President and Vice President; they choose the electors who choose the President and Vice President. A person can be elected President without a majority of electoral votes, too. It happened in 1824. If no candidate has an absolute majority (more than half) of all of the electoral votes, the House of Representatives elects the President, and they are not required to vote according to the will of the voters or the electoral college. Since 1964, that required minimum number of votes is 270.
When Washington became the first President of the United States, there were no elections for that office like we have today. The Electoral College chose Washington president. He is the only person to be unanimously elected by the Electoral College for the office of President. MrV
He is elected in conjunction with the person running as president .
Gerald Ford is the only person to be president and vice president but never elected.
electoral collage
They were elected by the electoral college. The electoral college is still in place today although it is not used. The candidates would write to influential businessmen and try to get their support. It was considered ungentlemanly to campaign like the candidates do nowadays. The person who came in first was president and the person who came in second was vice- president.
A person can be elected president at most two times.
by winning the electoral votes
The president is elected by the electoral college. When the Constitution was first written, the authors felt that the common man was not educated well enough to elect the proper person as president. The electoral college system was set up to elect the president. Every state has a number of electors equal to the combined number of representatives and senators it has in Congress. When citizens go to the polls and vote, they elect the candidate for which they want their electors to vote. For example, if your state has twelve representatives and two senators, your state would have a total of fourteen electors. If in the election, candidate X defeats candidate Y, even if it is by just one vote, candidate X will receive all fourteen electoral votes from your state. It is therefore possible for a president to be elected without having the most popular votes, although that is a rare possibility.
_____ Members of the Electoral College, called electors, will vote for one person as president and for another as vice-president.
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