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The electors meet in their respective state capitols and the state official in charge of certifying elections seals the ballots and sends them to the vice-President of the United States to be opened and counted at a joint session of Congress.
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The electoral votes are sent from each state capitol to his body to be counted?
Electoral votes are sent from each state to Congress to be counted.
Where are votes cast by the electoral college sent?
The votes of the electoral college are officially counted by the Congress. Each state also counts their own ballots.
Presidential electors cast their electoral votes in December in their hometown.?
False--s.w
What happens after the electoral college votes are cast?
The electoral votes are certified and sealed by the appropriate officers in each state capital and sent to the president of the United States Senate. At a special joint session of Congress they are opened and counted and the results are announced.
How did they determine how many electoral votes each state got?
The winner of the popular vote in one state takes all the electoral votes for that state. Winner takes all. Let's say Obama wins the popular vote in California, he gets ALL of the electoral votes for California.
What does the electoral college do to chose the president?
Officially, yes. However, all states now have laws in place to provide some degree of assurance that the candidate who wins the popular vote within the state will actually get that state's electoral votes.
How many votes does the electoral college need to elect a president?
A candidate needs 270 electoral votes to win the Presidency. This represents a majority -- one more than half -- of the current 538 electoral votes cast. (535 for the states and 3 by the District of Columbia) (A tie vote of 269 for each of two candidates is possible. If no candidate receives a majority of the electoral votes, the election is sent to the House of Representatives.)
When is the president really chosen?
The electoral college meets on the Monday following the second Wednesday of December. They cast their votes then, and those votes are sent to the President of the Senate who reads them before both houses of Congress on January 6th.
Where do each states electoral college votes go?
They are sent to the president of the Senate who in a joint session of Congress opens and counts them.
When do the members of the electoral college officially cast their votes?
The electors meet in their state capitals and cast their ballots. The ballots are sent ( presumably by registered mail) to the President of the Senate ( i.e. the vice-president of the US.)
Electoral votes are sent from each state capitol to this body?
Congress. Specifically the President of the Senate, usually the sitting Vice-President.The votes are then counted by a joint session of Congress on the first day of the first session in January (January 6) following the election.
A states presidential electors are chossen by?
The voters in the state. That's who we are actually voting for when we vote for President, since the Constitution does not allow for direct election of the President. When a candidate wins in a state, the electors who are pledged to that candidate are the ones sent to formally vote on who wins the election. In some states, the person with the most votes gets all the states electoral votes and in others the electoral votes are divided according to how many votes each candidate got. The are even variations on these two methods.This means that it is possible for one candidate to get the most overall votes in the country, but not be elected President because too many of votes he got were in states with too few electoral votes. This has happened twice in American history: 1876 when Hayes got fewer votes than Tilden, but won anyway, and in 2000 when HGore got more votes than Bush.
