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Was vice president and president without being elected by the electoral collage?
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∙ 15y agoGerold Ford. Nixon won the presidentcy with running mate Spiro Agnew. Agnew quit due to scandal. Ford was appointed to take Agnew's place. Nixon resigned to avoid impeachment and Ford became the president.
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Can you be elected president without receiving a mojority of popular vote?
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.
What was created to officially elect the 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.
Which reason best explains why the Electoral College is controversial?
The controversy can be seen 2 ways. It can been seen in the truth, and in the excuse. The excuse is that the electoral collage is not one vote is one vote. It is a complicated process where you instead of electing the president, you are electing electors who vote for the president. But the truth is simple. When creating the electoral collage, the founding fathers knew that if they created a popular vote to elect a president, big states (like NY and CA today) would dominate the election. All of the candidates would go there, and nobody else mattered. This system was created so that small states can actually play a impact in elections.
What made Gerald Ford famous?
He became Vice President and then President without being elected by the electoral college. He was appointed VP under the terms of the 25th amendment after Spiro Agnew resigned. He then became President when Richard Nixon resigned.
Who became president without being elected to the post and without being first elected to the vice presidency?
Ford
How it is possible that a president can be elected to office without getting the majority of the 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.
Which country elected a president each six without getting re-elected?
Mexico's president is elected to a six year term but cannot run again.
What two president won their elections without winning the electoral college?
people
Who is the only person who served as vice president and president and was not elected to either?
Millard Fillmore aquired presidency without being elected
What are the reasons for presidents occupying office without being elected?
Presidents can occupy office without being elected due to various reasons such as the death or resignation of the elected president, a military coup or takeover, the removal of a president through impeachment, or a constitutional succession plan that dictates the line of succession. These situations can lead to a vice president or another high-ranking official assuming the presidency without going through the electoral process.
Does the Electoral College system fail to ensure that the choice for president accurately reflects the will of the majority of voters?
Yes. If you consider the "majority of voters" to be a majority of voters nationwide without regard to the state they are from, then it is possible for a person to be elected president if he/she wins enough electoral even if nationwide the majority of voters chose the other candidate. This is because electoral votes are counted state by state not on a percentage basis of the national voters (except for Maine and Nebraska).
What Presidents were not elected?
There were two Presidential elections decided in the House of Representativesbecause no one won a majority of the electoral vote.The first occurred in 1800 when of a glitch in the original Constitutional system (repaired by the 12th amendment not long after!) resulted in a tie between running mates Thomas Jefferson & Aaron Burr. The House eventually decided in favor of Jefferson, whom all understood to have been his party's intended nominee for President. Jefferson also won the electoral vote in 1804.The second was the multi-candidate race of 1824, in which no candidate received a majority of electoral votes. The House voted for John Quincy Adams. (This infuriated Andrew Jackson, who had received the most popular votes, and charged a "corrupt bargain" when eliminated candidate Henry Clay threw his support to Adams and was later named as Adams's Secretary of State. Likely there was no "bargain" -- and the move made sens in light of the similarity of Adams & Clay's policy views -- but the matter was very ineptly handled by Adams & Clay.)The presidents never elected "president" by the electoral college are:John TylerMillard FillmoreAndrew JohnsonChester ArthurGerald FordThey were elected "vice-president" by the electoral college before ascending to the presidency due to the death/assassination/resignation of their predecessors (with the exception of Gerald Ford who was never elected president or vice president by the college and Millard Fillmore who was elected by the Whig National Convention in 1848 for his vice presidency).(Lyndon Johnson, Harry Truman and Theodore Roosevelt also ascended to the presidency due to death/assassination of their predecessors, but one can not say they were never been elected president by the electoral college because they ran again and were elected to be President.)
