Why is the president chosen by electoral vote?

Answer 1

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why does the electorial collage pick thepresident i am 9yrs old i have alot to think about and i need thisi am in collage please please i need this really i do i am on my moms account right now she told me to look this up fo her it keeps saying check out this answer is it the computer or me not doing it right i needto know thisright now or i will write a strong assighned letter do the policeor the president i have those connectione my mom is the stafff your so smart then tell it to no the letter is:why does the Electorial Collage get to pick the president???????????????????????????????????????

i do like Obama i voted for him really my mom did but i am a woman of her word i am very very ferrios about this please i want to pass collage and yes i am so smarti am in collage i private collage i skipped grade school and height school the reason is i didn't vote is cause i was meeting the president

Answer 2

It was created by the First Constitutional Congress in 1787 but then dismantled before the election of President James Monroe. It was then reinstituted following the civil war as a way to protect the un-educated citizens of both the north and the south by alloting each state a number of votes per the population. It is still in use today because it was never disbanded, though many people believe it is no longer an effective way to select the President.

Answer 3

270 electoral votes are needed to win the U.S. presidency. 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 House of Representatives. Since every state has two senators and at least one representative to the House, every state has at least 3 electoral votes. The District of Columbia gets 3 electoral votes. Therefore, the total number of electoral votes is 538 - 100 (senators) + 435 (representatives) + 3 (for DC). A majority is 270 - one more than half of the total number of 538.

The District of Columbia and 48 U.S. states (all except Maine and Nebraska) utilize a winner-takes-all rule for the Electoral College. In a winner-take-all state, all of the state's Electoral votes go to whichever candidate receives a majority of the popular vote, or a plurality of the popular vote (less than 50 percent but more than any other candidate).

The entire electoral college does not meet together in one place. Electors meet in their respective state capitals (electors for the District of Columbia meet within the District) on the Monday after the second Wednesday in December, at which time they cast their electoral votes on separate ballots for president and vice-president. Each state then forwards the election results to the President of the U.S. Senate, the Archivist of the United States, the state's Secretary of State, and the chief judge of the United States district court where those electors met. A joint session of Congress takes place on January 6 in the calendar year immediately following the meetings of the presidential electors. The electoral votes are officially tabulated at the joint session of Congress and the winner of the election is officially declared.

Answer 4

That was one of the many compromises that were settled on during the framing of the U. S. Constitution.

Answer 5

The electoral college system was an attempt by the founders to build in another form of checks and balances.

Answer 6

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