What proposals have been made to change the Electoral College system? How do the 538 electoral votes get divided among the States?
What is the difference between the Winner-Takes-All Rule and Proportional Voting, and which States follow which rule? Can citizens in U.S. Territories vote for President? What would happen if two candidates tied in a State’s popular vote, or if there was a dispute as to the winner? References How did the terms “Elector” and “Electoral College” come into usage? The term “electoral college” does not appear in the Constitution. Article II of the Constitution and the 12th Amendment refer to “electors,” but not to the “electoral college.” In the Federalist Papers (No. 68), Alexander Hamilton refers to the process of selecting the Executive, and refers to “the people of each State (who) shall choose a number of persons as electors,” but he does not use the term “electoral college.” The founders appropriated the concept of electors from the Holy Roman Empire (962 – 1806). An elector was one of a number of princes of the various German states within the Holy Roman Empire who had a right to par
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- What proposals have been made to change the Electoral College system? How do the 538 electoral votes get divided among the States?
- Which two states do not go by the the winner-take-all system concerning to electoral votes?
- Why have elections when the states winner will receive all the electoral votes?
