The 12th Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1804, established the process for electing the President and Vice President. It created a single ballot for both candidates, ensuring that they would be elected together as a team rather than separately. This amendment was implemented to prevent the complications that arose in the election of 1796 and 1800.
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choosing a candidate
It is up to each state to decide how its electors are chosen. Currently, every state and the District of Columbia allow the voters to decide which candidates' electors will be appointed. 49 of the 51 governments use a winner-take-all system, where all of the state's electoral votes go to the Presidential candidate and the Vice Presidential candidate with the most popular votes. Maine and Nebraska each cast two votes for each office according to the state's popular vote, and each remaining electoral vote goes to the candidate with the highest popular vote in each congressional district.
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Only the States can ratify a constitutional amendment. The President can veto legislation putting the amendment up for ratification, but can be overridden by the normal process in the Senate.
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According to exit polls from presidential elections, in the five elections between 1992 and 2008, on average 88% of African-Americans voted for the democratic candidate, while slightly over 9% voted for the republican candidate. The rest voted for a third-party candidate. The 2008 election, which featured Barack Obama seeking to become the first African-American president, saw a significant increase in the percentage of African-Americans voting for the democratic candidate, with most exit polls putting the percentage somewhere between 95% and 98%.
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