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This group is called the Electoral College. It is a group of people from each state who decide whom to vote for based on the popular vote from the state they represent. It was designed by the Founding Fathers to mitigate the possibly detrimental effects of lack of education and literacy. With this system, the majority vote decides the votes of the members of the Electoral College. We do not have direct election of the president, although we do have direct election of senators. Here is an example: I live in Texas. I may vote Democrat, but the majority of the people in my state vote Republican. Therefore, the members of the electoral college representing Texas will vote Republican. My vote does not count because we do not have popular election of presidents. Many people feel that this practice needs to be retired because of the proliferation of information thanks to increased education and the media.
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What college determines the presidential elections outcome?
The electoral college, made up of the electors from the states and DC elect the US President.
Informal presidential advisory group that is made up of close friends and specialists called?
informal presidential advisory group that is made up of close friends and specialists called the
What change was made in the electoral college system by the twelve amendment?
Prior to the 1804 presidential election, electors cast votes for two persons. Electors could not distinguish between their presidential and vice-presidential choices until the passage of the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1804. The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution - prescribing electors cast separate ballots for president and vice president - replaced the system outlined in Article II, Section 1, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution. By June 1804, the states had ratified the amendment in time for the 1804 election.
How do you use Special interest group in a sentence?
The Special interest group issued a few methods for the organization.
A special body made up of people selected by each state which votes for the president and vice president is called the?
Such is called the Electoral College or the College of Electors.
What is the informal advisory group to the president called?
An informal presidential advisory group that is made up of close friends and specialists is called the ...
Who are the people that make up the electoral votes?
Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution established the Electoral College to elect the President. It provided that each state would choose electors according to a method set up by the state legislature. Each state received the number of electors that equalled the two Senators plus the number of Representatives in the House of Representatives that the state has. Today, when you vote, you are voting for electors pledged to vote for the candidate of your party. Some states list the name of the electors but most simply list the name of the candidates. So, if you vote for the Republican candidate for President in the general election in November, you are actually voting for the electors selected by the State's Republican Party who are pledged to vote for the Republican candidate if he wins a majority of the popular vote in your state. There are a total of 538 electors that make up the Electoral College. The winning candidate must get 270 of the votes. They formally meet and vote on the Monday following the second Wednesday in December. The votes are taken to the Senate where, on January 6, both houses meet together and the President of the Senate (the current Vice President) counts the votes and officially declares the winner.
Who is NC's electoral college?
North Carolina cast its 15 electoral votes for Donald Trump in the 2016 election. The 2016 presidential electors from North Carolina pledged to vote for Donald Trump for President and Mike Pence for Vice President were Linda Harper, Charles Staley, Karen Kozel, Martha Jenkins, Celeste Stanley, Donald Webb, Robert Muller, Jennifer Dunbar, Andrea Arterburn, Glenn Pinckney Sr., Mark Delk, David Speight, Ann Sullivan, Lee Green, and David Smusk.
What body ACTUALLY elects the president?
The electoral college elects the US president. When the people vote for president, they are actually voting for the electors who made up the electoral college and who actually elect the president. The electors pledge to support one particular candidate. The electors never meet as a group but each elector votes in his state capital and the votes are sent to the Senate president. They are counted in a joint session of Congress.
What was the name of the special group that made sure that everyone used the units?
The 'Kool Katz'
How a president is elected?
Every four years, each state appoints a number of electors equal to the total number of U.S. Senators and U.S. Representatives to which the state will be entitled on the next Inauguration Day, and D.C. appoints the same number of electors as the state with the smallest population (3). The U.S. Constitution allows every state legislature to use whatever method it chooses for determining how its electors are chosen. With the exception of when a territory is granted statehood too close to election day to hold a public election, every state has chosen to use some form of the popular vote method since the Civil War. In the popular vote method, the state asks the voting public to indicate their preference for President and Vice President as part of the November General Election. At some point each political party in each state gives the state's Secretary of State a list of people who have made a pledge that if they are appointed as an elector they will vote for that party's candidates. Each party's group of potential electors within a state is referred to as a slate of electors. After the General Election the state Secretary of State makes the electoral appointments based on which party's candidates were the most popular preferences among the state's voters. The most common form of the popular vote method is referred to as "winner takes all". That's when the whole slate of electors that is pledged to the ticket (the pair of presidential and vice-presidential candidates running as a team) that got more votes than any other from the state's voting public get appointed. In other words, the state gives 100% of its electoral votes to the most popular preferences for president and vice president as determined by the state's voters. That's the way it's done in D.C. and in every state except Maine and Nebraska. Those two states use the popular vote method that is known as the congressional district method. That's when only two electors are appointed from the slate supporting the most popular choice across the whole state, and each additional appointment is made based on the most popular choice in each of the state's congressional districts. That almost always ends up as all of their votes going to the same ticket anyway. The only time Maine ever voted for more than one candidate in a presidential election was in 1828. Nebraska split its vice-presidential votes between two candidates in 1896, but the only other time they ever split their electoral votes was in 2008, when the Obama/Biden ticket won in one of its three congressional districts while the McCain/Palin ticket won in the other two as well as statewide.On the Monday after the second Wednesday of December, which turns out to always be the sixth Monday after Election Day, each state's group of electors gets together within their own state and lists everyone getting votes for president and showing how many presidential votes each one got, then they make a separate list of everyone getting votes for vice president and showing how many vice-presidential votes each one got. Since 1804, each elector is allowed to cast one vote for president and one vote for vice president. All of the electors sign the "Certificates of Vote", and copies are made and sent to various places for archiving and backup and for the Sec. of State, but most importantly a copy is sent to the U.S. Vice President, who, as President of the U.S. Senate, is in charge of counting all of the electoral votes on the 6th of January in front of a joint session of Congress.Occasionally an elector does not vote as he/she pledged to. Those people are referred to as "faithless electors". Those cases are quite rare; it happened only five times in the past 50 years. If you divide that by 538 electors per election for 12 elections, that comes to only 0.077%....In 1972 a Republican elector from Virginia voted instead for the Libertarian Party's presidential and vice-presidential nominees. That made the Libertarian Party's 1972 vice-presidential nominee the first woman ever to receive an electoral vote (her name is Theodora Nathan).In 1976 one of the Republican electors from Washington State cast his presidential vote for Ronald Reagan, who had lost that year's Republican presidential nomination to incumbent President Gerald Ford.In 1988 one of the Democratic electors from West Virginia gave his/her presidential vote to the vice presidential candidate and the vice presidential vote to the presidential candidate.In 2000 one of the Democratic electors from the District of Columbia withheld her votes in protest of D.C.'s lack of congressional representation.In 2004 one of the Democratic electors from Minnesota cast his/her presidential vote for the vice-presidential candidate and withheld his/her vice-presidential vote.I failed to state at the top that during the spring and summer of a presidential election year each political party has a big confusing series of primary elections and/or caucuses culminating with the party's National Convention. That is the process by which the party picks one nominee for President and one nominee for Vice President. Actually, since about 50 years ago the presidential nominees have gotten to pick their own running mates (vice-presidential nominees), and the party just gives their approval.
Was William Lloyd garrison part of any special group?
William Garrison was part of special groups. The first was in a group called American Colonization Society then made his own called The Liberator.
