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All states do have at least three electors who cast electoral votes.
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How does New Jersey determine how many electoral voters each candidate will get?
It is a winner takes all state.
US voters directly elect members of which branch of the federal government?
Voters directly elect their congressman and senators, who form the legislative branch. The person who wins the most votes in a state wins the election. Voters do not technically elect the president. The president is chosen by the electoral college. People vote in the presidential election and their votes are tallied by the states. Each state has a certain number of electoral votes. If 51% of the people of Florida, then all of Florida's electoral college votes go for that person. At the end of election day, all the votes are tallied in each state, and the electoral college votes numbers are added up. Whoever wins the majority of the electoral college wins. This means that even if a candidate wins the majority of votes, as Al Gore did in 2000, he can still lose in the electoral college and lose the presidency.
How many registered voters?
there are more than 250,000 registered voters (in all 50 states)
Which of the following is not an objection to the way the Electoral College works?
The Electoral college gives the same number of votes to all of the states (NovaNET)----the electoral college gives the same number of votes to all of the states (novanet)----
Who are the electoral college voters?
The electoral college is chosen by the voters of the individual states. When one votes during the general election, when they choose their vote for president, they are actually casting their vote for the electors of the state. The college then generally (with few exceptions through history) votes for whomever won the mojority of the votes for that state.
Are all states of equal importance under the electoral college system?
No. Not only do electoral votes have an enormous disparity in the number of voters represented, but the awarding of all of a state's votes to one candidate means that votes for other candidates become effectively moot. The "winner take all" system makes the states with more electoral votes more important in the election. The presidential candidate with the most votes wins all the electoral votes of the state (in 48 states). The result is that winning a few large population states, even by a tiny margin, can guarantee election to the presidency. A candidate who received 51% of the vote in just 11 large "swing" states could win the Presidency with as little as 25% of the popular vote. (This is, however, unlikely.)
Does The existence of the Electoral College mean that the president is not elected by the popular vote?
The president of the United States is not elected by direct popular vote, but rather by the electoral college. A mere 538 people, chosen by voters in all the states are the ones who actually elect the president. The candidate with the majority of electoral votes wins the presidency.
The group people chosen by the voters to elect the president and the vice president of the united states?
They are "electors" and as a group they are the "electoral college." Voters in Presidential elections are actually selecting the electors who represent a given party or candidate. Under the US Contitution, voters in each state select Presidential Electors who meet in their State Capitals and vote on the Presidential slates. Together, these Electors constitute the Electoral College, although the College never meets all together in one place. Although Electors are usually pledged to vote for one slate or another, there is no constitutional requirement that they do so. Originally they were expected to vote as they thought best for their states and the country.
Can Trump win by a landslide and still lose the election due to electoral?
I don't know about getting a "landslide" popular vote and losing in the Electoral College, but candidates have won the popular vote then lost the electoral college. In 2000, George W Bush had 540,000 fewer votes than Al Gore, but won the Electoral College majority. When a candidate wins the popular vote of a state, all the electoral votes of that state go to that candidate. The more populous states have more electoral votes, but the count is not dependent upon the number of voters who show up at the polls. So the number of actual voters per Electoral College delegate can vary considerably depending upon the voter turnout of each state. To try to illustrate this, California could have only 3 voters show up with 2 voting for Hillary. All 55 Electoral College votes would go to Hillary. Texas (38), Arizona (11) and Idaho (4) could also each have 3 voters (2 Trump vs 1 Hillary) with a total of 6 going to Trump and 3 to Hillary. Between the 4 states, the popular vote would be 7 for Trump and 5 for Hillary, but the electoral vote be 55 for Hillary and vs 53 for Trump.
Are the states of equal importance under the Electoral College system?
No. Not only do electoral votes have an enormous disparity in the number of voters represented, but the awarding of all of a state's votes to one candidate means that votes for other candidates become effectively moot. The "winner take all" system makes the states with more electoral votes more important in the election. The presidential candidate with the most votes wins all the electoral votes of the state (in 48 states). The result is that winning a few large population states, even by a tiny margin, can guarantee election to the presidency. A candidate who received 51% of the vote in just 11 large "swing" states could win the Presidency with as little as 25% of the popular vote. (This is, however, unlikely.)
What is the ratio of electoral votes in Texas compared to all the states in the US in the 2008 election?
Texas has 34 of the 538 Electoral Votes in the Electoral College.
What makes up a states electoral votes?
Each state has electoral votes equal to the total of the 2 representative the state has in the U.S. Senate plus the number of representative the state has in the U.S. House of Representatives. The District of Columbia gets 3 electoral votes. Therefore, the total number of electoral votes is 538 - 100 (senators) + 435 (representatives) +3 (for DC).
