Only the U. S. Presidency and the U. S. Vice Presidency, and only when one of the candidates gets more than half of the available votes.
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the president. the electoral college choses
An electoral college is a set of electors who are selcted to elect a candidate to a particular office.
the U.S. president and the U.S. vice president
You may be referring to the oath of office. But the electoral college is what officially elects the president. A presidential candidate may win the popular vote, but without enough electoral votes, he (or one day, she) will not be officially elected.
The electoral college is the group of people who officially elect the US president.
Our representatives and the electoral college, and they do not have to listen to the majority of the voters.
For his first term in office, he unanimously elected President by the Electoral College and for his second term in office no one ran against him.
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
The people (read: noncriminal citizens above the age of 18) of that country. The people of the United States elect the President by Popular Vote, but the Electoral College is the body that officially elects the President into office. (There have been 4 Presidents elected into office by the Electoral College that lost the popular vote, which means that the majority of people didn't vote for that president. http://americanhistory.about.com/od/uspresidents/f/pres_unpopular.htm)