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• 01/20/01: electoral college.
• the idea of electoral college is so each state matters. if we got rid of the electoral college no one would campaign in states like wyoming or the dakotas because no one lives there. ... of, course there are those who will say the electoral college is merely there to supress the black vote which i'm all in favor of. ...

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• Despite its name, the Electoral College is NOT a college. ...
• Not only about the process and technology of casting and counting votes, but of the design of our electoral system itself. In short, many wonder if the Electoral College just an antiquated throwback to earlier times. ...
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• The Electoral College and the Jews:  The Founding Fathers Must Have Meant Us .
•     Recently, the new Senator-elect from New York, Hillary Clinton, said that she would introduce a motion in the Senate to amend the Constitution so as to eliminate the electoral college, which is rooted in Article 2, Section 2, Clauses 2 and 3 and in the 12th Amendment. ...
•    The number of votes that each state can contribute to the electoral count is equal to the number of representatives each state sends to Congress. ...
•    California has 54 electoral votes. ... New York has 33 electoral votes.   Florida, with 25 electoral votes, has 637,000 Jews or 4. ... Other states with a good sized electoral vote and a significant Jewish population are New Jersey with 15 electoral votes and 465,000 Jews, constituting 5. 7 percent of the population of over 8 million, and Massachusetts, with 12 electoral votes and a Jewish population of 4. ...
• 6%, has 32 electoral votes. ...
• First, that we are concentrated is a few states with large electoral votes. ...
•    Now if the electoral college were abolished, then our vote would normally be only 1. ...
•     To sum up my argument, I believe that the electoral college makes it much easier for us to demand that our country support Israel, which is constantly threatened by the 187 million Arabs surrounding it. Other Jewish issues, whatever their nature, receive a far more considerate hearing with the electoral college in place than without it. ...
•     Therefore it is now incumbent on us to write to Hillary and tell her that abolition of the electoral college is a bad idea. ...
•     Keep the electoral college which was written into the Constitution of the United States with us in mind. ...

• Direct Election Versus The Electoral College .
• Whatever the ultimate outcome of the presidential election, it is safe to assume that there is going to be a serious debate next year on replacing the Electoral College. ... Polls have consistently shown large majorities of Americans favoring direct election of the president over the Electoral College. ...
• As long ago as 1944, the Gallup Poll found 65 percent of Americans in favor of abolishing the Electoral College. ...
• Thus far, advocates of the Electoral College largely have relied upon reciting the views of the Founding Fathers to support their case. However, given the drastic decline in educational standards over the years, few Americans today are likely to even know who James Madison was, let alone find his logic supporting the Electoral College in the Federalist Papers to be persuasive. ...
• If those who support the Electoral College wish to keep it, they are going to have to rely more on practical political arguments, and less on appeals to historical authorities. ...
• The best argument for the Electoral College is that residents of small states should forget about ever seeing another presidential candidate if we move to direct election. ... We could easily end up with both the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates being from California year after year, once the Electoral College is gone. ... One of the virtues of the Electoral College is that it tends to magnify the winner's victory, giving him greater stature and making it easier to govern. ...
• 2 percent of the total popular vote, but won by a much more comfortable margin of almost 16 percent of the Electoral College (see figure). ...
• 5 percent of the popular vote in 1992, but by more than 37 percent in the Electoral College. ...
• Those supporting direct election and abolition of the Electoral College will be deluding themselves if they think it would have prevented this year's election debacle. ... Absence of the Electoral College would not have made the outcome clearer. The Electoral College serves this nation well by ensuring that presidents must campaign in and represent a broad cross-section of America. ...

• Unfairness of the Electoral College System Revealed.
• Not until the last presidential election did I fully understand the electoral college system, and not until this year did I almost understand the primary system. ...
• The electoral college has 538 members, one for each member of Congress and three for Washington, D. ... To win the presidency, a candidate must win 270 electoral votes, a simple majority. The effect of each statewide election is to select which party is allowed to send its electors to the prestigious electoral voting place (wherever that may be) -- electors who, if they are smart and do not want to lose the "prestige" of being puppet electors, will vote for their party's candidate. ...
• One problem with this system is that traditionally a candidate receives all of a state's electoral votes if he or she wins that state. This means that if 5,000,000 Californians vote for Candidate A and 4,999,999 Californians vote for Candidate B, Candidate A would receive all of California's 54 electoral votes, and Candidate B would receive none! This means that the apathy of two California voters can decide a close race.
• Each state has the same number of electoral votes as it does members of Congress. Since congressional apportionment in the Senate favors the small states, the electoral college favors the small states. To see how large an impact this has, consider this: California, with 29,760,021 residents, has 54 electoral votes, or about 551,000 people per elector. Wyoming, with 453,588 people, has three electoral votes, or about 152,000 people per elector. ... Sixty-five Wyomings could fit in California, meaning that a California scaled in such a way would contribute 195 votes to the electoral college! (Of course, few Californians are willing to move to Wyoming just to have 260 percent more voting power once every four years. ...
• Another kink in the election process occurs when no candidate wins 270 electoral votes. ...
• To change the electoral college system would require changing the Constitution, a process which requires either congressional votes, state-by-state conventions, or a combination of both. In either case, the small states are overrepresented, and it is unlikely that the small states will give up their favorable representation in the electoral college.

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• The Electoral College is one of the most controversial issues in the United States today. ... Each state has a certain amount of electoral votes based upon the population there. The presidential candidates must get a total of 270 electoral votes before they can win the election.
• Many people think that the government would be better off without the electoral college, and that eliminating it would be more efficient. The electoral college is not always democratic and certain states, depending on their population, are represented more than others. A candidate could win the popular vote, but still loose loose the election if they don't win the electoral votes. ...
• In order to make the election process more democratic some people feel that eliminating the electoral college and going for a direct vote would improve the process as a whole. By having each person's individual ballot count, the states will be represented more accurately than having electoral votes. ...
• Eliminating the electoral college would cause less friction between the states and the candidates. ...
• "The argument against the electoral college. ...
• Thank you for your papers on the college. This has of course become especially relevant in the past few weeks, with VP Gore winning over 300,000 more votes than Bush, but still seemingly behind in Electoral College votes. Its interesting that when Kennedy & Nixon were running against each other, the 200,000 vote margin between them gave Kennedy over 300 of the electoral votes. ...
• In America the case where the popular vote is different from the electoral college has only happened twice in your history 1888 & 2000. ...
• I mean, Nader won 2-3% of the vote nation-wide but didn't,t get any representation in the college. ... The all or nothing nature of the college doesn't,t represent what the people of America voted for. ...

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• All of this talk about Republicans wanting to retain the Electoral College because it gives them an unfair advantage vis a vis the popular vote is nonsense. The myth is that the Electoral College gives more power to smaller states that tend to favor Republicans. ... The facts are that in 17 of 25 Presidential elections this century, the candidate who won the largest states (on average) won a larger share of the electoral vote than they did of the poplular vote. Conversely, the candidate who won smaller states won a larger share of the popular vote than they did of the electoral vote. ...
• The real reason that Republicans don't want to do away with selection of Presidents based on Electoral College voting is they believe in the wisdom of the founding fathers. Its inspiring to see a party stand by principle even though Electoral College voting stacks the deck (because of winner-take-all) towards the big industrial states that tend to favor Democrats.
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• When the movement to do away with the electoral college begins please remind folks the power comes from the states. ...
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• Gore (Clinton's VP) is attempting to get the court to force the State of Florida to hand count votes because unbiased machines have given Florida's electoral votes to George W. The irony is that those same machines also gave the electoral votes to Clinton & Gore in 1992 and 1996. ...
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• The Popular Vote, The Electoral College & The Courts.
• Popular Vote: We would not have a republic if we did not have an Electoral College. ... President Bush won the election by convincing 33 states (with a majority of Electoral College votes) that he was the man best qualified to lead the nation. ...

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• According to the World Book Encyclopedia, "the Electoral College is a method of indirect popular election of the President of the United States". ... Now that we have a working definition of what the College is, let's take a historical look at it and see when and why we started using this system.
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• The current workings of the Electoral College are the result of both design and experience. ...
• The political parties (or independent candidates) submit to the State's chief election official a list of individuals pledged to their candidate for president and equal in number to the State's electoral vote. ...
• On the Monday following the second Wednesday of December (as established in federal law) (December 18, 2000) each State's Electors meet in their respective State capitals and cast their electoral votes-one for president and one for vice president. ...
• The electoral votes are then sealed and transmitted from each State to the President of the Senate who, on the following January 6, opens and reads them before both houses of the Congress. ...
• The candidate for president with the most electoral votes, provided that it is an absolute majority (one over half of the total), is declared president. Similarly, the vice presidential candidate with the absolute majority of electoral votes is declared vice president. ...
• In the event no one obtains an absolute majority of electoral votes for president, the U. ...
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• the Electoral College n : nominally independent body of ‘electors’ that actually elects the president and vice president. ... 1% of voters in California vote for the Democratic candidate for president, say, then what actually happens is that all 54 of the electors nominated for California by the Democratic Party are elected to the Electoral College. The 54 electors meet just once, remaining in California (the entire Electoral College never meets as a body), for the purpose of casting 54 votes for the Democratic candidate for president and also (nominally separately) 54 votes for the Democratic candidate for vice president. The 538 votes from the Electoral College must produce an actual majority for the winning candidates (which happens practically always - see third party), or else they are ignored and a special voting procedure in Congress determines the winners.

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• In the 2000 election, however, the Electoral College is expected to overrule the popular vote, electing George W. ... This site also provides background information on the Electoral College, a word about privacy concerns regarding the electors, and a media center. We believe that this campaign could help sow the seeds for abolition of the Electoral College. Citizens for True Democracy, founded in 1998 to improve political participation via electoral reform, is a non-partisan public interest organization based in Claremont, California. ...

• Abolish the Electoral College.
• Position Paper on the Electoral College.
• As anyone who paid even the slightest attention to the election of 2000 knows, American presidential elections are decided not by the popular vote but by a unique institution known as the Electoral College. ... Constitution to win a majority (not merely a plurality) of the votes in the Electoral College. Under the Constitution, each state gets one vote in the Electoral College for each U. ... Thus in 2000 New York State had 33 electoral votes, since it had two U. ... In the 2004 Presidential election it will have only 31 electoral votes, as its representation in the House will be reduced to 29 in the Congress that takes office in January of 2003. As there are at present 435 members of the House and 100 members of the Senate; and as the Twenty Third Amendment to the United States Constitution in practice gives the District of Columbia three electoral votes, there are now 538 votes in the Electoral College (subject to a caveat noted later). Thus to become President, an individual must obtain at least 270 electoral votes. ...
• In all the states except Maine and Nebraska, the winner of a plurality of the popular votes gets all that state's electoral votes. ... Bush won Florida by only 537 votes out of about 6 million cast in the state he got all of its 25 electoral votes -- which gave him a total of 271 electoral votes and thus the election.
• FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS THE STATEN ISLAND DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIATION BELIEVES THAT THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE OUGHT TO BE ABOLISHED AND THAT THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT OUGHT TO BE CHOSEN IN DIRECT ELECTIONS JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER ELECTED OFFICIAL IN THE NATION:.
• The framers decided to have the President chosen via the indirect method of the Electoral College rather than by direct popular vote because the majority of them were highly suspicious of the average person's ability to make a knowledgeable and dispassionate choice. ...
• As has happened four times in our history, the winner of the majority or plurality of the popular vote may not get the requisite majority in the Electoral College. ...
• Because the number of electoral votes a state has reflects the fact it has two United States Senators and because each state gets two Senators regardless of its population, the smallest states are disproportionately represented in the Electoral College given the size of their population. ... has one electoral vote for every 550,000 people; while South Dakota has one for every 232,000. ... Bush captured 73 electoral votes in 12 small states with a combined population equal to California's, whereas Mr. ... Ironically, these data appear in an editorial defending the Electoral College!) .

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•      Critically asses the view that the Electoral College system ‘serves American democracy well ’ The Electoral College process is part of the original design of the U. ... The Electoral College was devised by the Founding Fathers to elect the president and vice president. ... The Electoral College system has been criticised many times since its establishment. ... Because of the aggregation of the electoral votes by state, it is possible that a candidate might win the most popular votes but lose in the Electoral College voting, this happened 3 times in the 19th century, but also in the presidential elections of 2000. Although Gore gained nearly half a million more votes than Bush he didn’t gain enough electoral votes to win. The winner-take-all system literally means that the candidate team that wins most of the plurality votes in a particular state gets all of the electoral votes in that state, and the loser gets none, even if the loss is marginal. For example, all 54 of California’s electoral votes go to the winner of that state election, even if the margin of victory is only 50. ... The main danger of faithless electors is that the candidate who wins the popular vote could wind up 1 or 2 votes short of a majority in the Electoral College and could lose the election on a technicality. ... Also, one vote per state in the House of Representatives may not necessarily result in a choice that replicates the electoral vote winner in that state in November. There are however many strengths of the Electoral College system which serve American democracy well. ... Many of the weaknesses of the Electoral College apply just as well to the Senate and, in some ways the House of Representatives.

• Electoral College Discussed.
• In a nationally televised panel discussion from McNeir Auditorium Wednesday, political science experts debated the merits of the Electoral College and disagreed about what its future should be.
• Following Georgetown government professor James Lengle’s opening remarks, each panelist was allowed to briefly state their position on the viability of the Electoral College. A debate ensued based on questions posed by moderator Lengle on a variety of issues surrounding the current electoral system. ...
• Some of the issues discussed included the advantages and disadvantages of the Electoral College, the historical context of the debate, possible alterations of the existing procedures, the viability of nationwide direct election and the likelihood that the current system will be changed. ...
• Walter Berns, a Georgetown government professor and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, praised the current electoral system. ...
• “Thank God for the Electoral College,” Berns said. “Or to be more specific, thanks to James Madison, Gouverneur Morris and the other delegates at the convention of 1787 for the Electoral College. ...
• Berns warned that, if not for the Electoral College, the repeated recounts that have occurred in Florida would occur in every state in each presidential election. ...
• Instead, Gans suggested that the current electoral system could be improved if each state apportioned its electoral votes like in Maine and Nebraska, as opposed to the winner-take-all policy adopted by most states. ...
• Louis Michael Seidman, a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown University Law Center, argued in favor of abolishing the Electoral College. Seidman accused the Electoral College of being antiquated and said that it no longer serves the function for which it was intended. ...
• She called the Electoral College a “vestige of a bygone era” and suggested that the process no longer makes sense in the modern age. ...
• As Lengle explained in the beginning of the proceedings, each state, as well as the District of Columbia, carries as many electoral votes as it has congressional representatives and senators for a total of 538. Each political party in each state is responsible for choosing a panel of electors who will cast ballots in the Electoral College for the president, should their party’s candidate win the popular vote in that state. In 48 of the 50 states in the union, the candidate who wins a plurality of the popular vote receives all of the state’s electoral votes in a winner-take-all system. ...

• Reforming the Electoral College.
• The Electoral College has been the most attacked part of the US Constitution. ...
• The Electoral College may have been a necessary provision to assure support of all the states in creating the United States, but today most view it as an outdated anachronism, a final vestige of states' rights in an era where all other elected offices are filled by direct popular vote.
• Until the Constitution is amended, we must work with the Electoral College. There are ways to make the Electoral College more representative of the popular will, which we should see as a stopgap solution until a constitutional amendment allows direct popular vote for President and Vice President.
• The first step toward a more representational Electoral College is a federal mandate that states assign electors in proportion to the popular vote -- and that electors be bound by law to vote as assigned.
• For instance, Florida has 25 electoral votes, which will all be assigned to the winner once one is determined. ...
• In fact, the larger the state, the more likely third-party candidates will receive some votes in the Electoral College. ... Under the current system, candidates such a John Anderson, Ross Perot, and Ralph Nader obtained a respectable percentage of the popular vote, yet none of them received even a single vote in the Electoral College.
• Since the Constitution requires a majority vote in the Electoral College, we need a system which would bring that about in a race with three or more candidates.
• The Impact of Electoral College Reform.
• The greatest benefit of such reform is that the Electoral College would, at least in the first round, better reflect the will of the American voter. I don't know if that would change the result of the current election (still undetermined as I write this), but as a nation we would see the Electoral College as more representative than it is today.
• The second benefit of this reform is that minority candidates would receive Electoral College votes, although possibly at a somewhat lower level than their popular vote.
• A third benefit, closely linked to this, is that supporters of third-party candidates would be more likely to actually vote for them, since there would be a real chance of the candidate receiving some votes in the Electoral College.

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• Presidential photo finishes have occasionally occurred, elections so close that were it not for the Electoral College, the nation would have found itself in a crisis. Yet because it seems redundant to the popular vote, citizens find it difficult to understand and often question the necessity for the Electoral College. ... After all, does the electoral vote do much more than exaggerate the popular vote? But the history of this uniquely American institution might shed some light on the rationale behind it. ...
• Finally, a "Committee of Eleven" in the Constitutional Convention proposed an indirect election of the president through a college of electors. ... In the Electoral College system, the states serve as the centurial representative and the number of votes are determined by the number of representatives in each state’s congressional delegation. ...
• Although it’s a safe bet that the political parties will choose those who they trust to carry their preference to the College, this does not predetermine how each elector will vote. ... Thus, the Electoral College could well produce a winner in December that was not apparent on election day in November. ...
• Electoral Tie Votes Are Possible.
• What happens if the electoral vote is tied 270 to 270? The answer lies in the Twelfth Amendment: .
• In 1800 the Democratic-Republican electors gave Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr equal numbers of electoral votes. The tie was settled in Jefferson’s favor by the House of Representatives in accordance with the original design of the Electoral College system and, if fact, was the reason for the adoption of the 12th Amendment which effectively prevented this sort of thing from ever happening again.
• Electoral College Contrary to Popular Vote? Sometimes!.
• In the 1872 election Democratic candidate Horace Greely of "Go West, young man" journalistic fame thoughtlessly died during the period between the popular vote and the meeting of the Electoral College. Greely-pledged electors, clearly unprepared for such an eventuality, split their electoral votes among several other Democratic candidates and this enabled Ulysses S. Grant to receive an absolute majority of electoral votes.

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• Electoral College The Electoral College, friend or foe? The answer behind this question is in the minds of those that understand it. ... Since the political circumstance of today, the Electoral College seems to be the topic in every conversation and the thesis to every essay. ... Many oppose the Electoral College because of the fact that unknowing electors choose their leader and many support it because it was created by the founding fathers. ... The question is: Can a system be created to satisfy both sides of the American public? The founding fathers created the Electoral College for many reasons. ... Consequently, they created a complex “filtering” process known as the Electoral College. ... The structure of the Electoral College was similar to that of the Centurial Assembly system of the Roman Republic. ... The Electoral College is made up of 538 members. ... In a case where there is no absolute majority of electoral votes for president. ... The Electoral College has had its time in the spot light not just now with the 2000 elections but in other times, such as the Elections of 1800 and 1888. ... Therefore, Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr both received the same number of electoral votes, 73, defeating their opponents. ... The Election of 1888 is the only obvious instance where the Electoral College went against the popular vote.
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• Shaking up the electoral college for Massachusetts.
• Her winner-take-all Electoral College allocation causes presidential candidates to ignore Massachusetts. ...
• As any student of civics knows, the presidential candidate who wins the greatest share of Massachusetts’s popular vote gets all 12 of her Electoral College votes. ...
• If the Democratic candidate leads the national polls, he would easily win Massachusetts in a landslide and so again neither Republicans nor Democrats would worry about Massachusetts’s electoral votes. ...
• There’s a way for Massachusetts to make her electoral college votes matter. ...
• Massachusetts should abandon her winner-take-all Electoral College allocation. Although 47 other states have identical electoral allocation mechanisms, the winner-take-all arrangement isn’t mandated by the U. ... Indeed, Maine and Nebraska use a different proportionally-based system in which it’s possible (although it has never actually happened) that multiple candidates could receive some of the state’s electoral votes.
• Massachusetts would boost her political influence by adopting proportional representation under which the number of electoral votes a candidate received was proportional to the share of the popular votes he wins. So, for example, if you win 70% of the popular vote you would get 70% (with some rounding) of the Electoral College votes. ...
• In contrast, if Massachusetts had proportional representation it would be more competitive – winning an extra 20,000 Massachusetts votes might give the president another Electoral College delegate. ...
• Obviously, moving to proportional representation would help Republican and third party presidential candidates who now have almost no chance at capturing any of Massachusetts’s electoral votes. ...
• If the national polls give either major candidate about an equal chance of capturing Florida, then under a winner-take-all system a few thousand extra popular votes could cause a candidate to capture all of Florida’s electoral votes. ... In contrast, if Florida used proportional allocation, then winning a few thousand more popular votes would at best win a candidate one more Electoral College vote. ...
• Miller is an assistant professor of economics at Smith College and the author of Game Theory At Work (McGraw Hill, 2003). ...

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• The electoral college is the method stipulated in Article II, Section 1, of the Constitution for electing the president and vice president. ...
• The election of 1800, in which Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr were tied in the electoral vote, resulted in passage of the Twelfth Amendment (1804). ...
• Modern critics note that the electoral college has several potentially dangerous flaws. For example, a president can be elected with a majority of electoral votes, even though his or her opponent has won a majority of popular votes; this last happened in 1888. Reformers have urged that the electoral college be abolished in favor of direct popular vote for president and vice president, or that the electoral votes of each state be allotted to the candidates in proportion to the popular vote they receive rather than the present winner-take-all system. Defenders of the electoral college reject the dangers as exaggerated and insist that the system has worked far better than one might expect.

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•      The Electoral College has worked for the United States of America for this long for several reasons. The Electoral College has its upside and its down, but in this day in age I think we need a change. ... We could update the Electoral College or simply start a new system. ...

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