Make sure to update your bookmarks! The U. Constitution contains very few provisions relating to the qualifications of electors. As a historical matter, the 14th Amendment provides that State officials who have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States or given aid and comfort to its enemies are disqualified from serving as electors.
This prohibition relates to the post-Civil War era. Each State's Certificates of Ascertainment confirms the names of its appointed electors. A State's certification of its electors is generally sufficient to establish the qualifications of electors. Choosing each State's electors is a two-part process. First, the political parties in each State choose slates of potential electors sometime before the general election.
Second, during the general election, the voters in each State select their State's electors by casting their ballots. The first part of the process is controlled by the political parties in each State and varies from State to State. Generally, the parties either nominate slates of potential electors at their State party conventions or they chose them by a vote of the party's central committee.
This happens in each State for each party by whatever rules the State party and sometimes the national party have for the process. No, it's not really a college. Each state has a number of electors equal to its number of seats in Congress. The minimum is three. California, the most populous state, has Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia, which also gets three electors, follow a winner-take-all system. The presidential candidate who wins the popular vote in that state gets his or her slate of electors selected.
Maine and Nebraska use a different method. There are votes in the electoral college. To win, a candidate needs at least votes. If no one gets that many, the newly elected House of Representatives decides the winner. So how is it that a candidate can win the national popular vote but not win the election? Let's use as an example. Nationwide, Clinton got nearly 2. But her votes were clustered in a few, more populous states, so the 'excess' didn't help her electoral vote total. Trump, by contrast, won several less populous states and rode the winner-takes-all system to victory.
Kids Cooking Series Jul. Kids Cooking Series May. Molly Duffy Kids Articles Apr. The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors , the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress. The Electoral College consists of electors. A majority of electoral votes is required to elect the President. Your State has the same number of electors as it does Members in its Congressional delegation: one for each Member in the House of Representatives plus two Senators.
Read more about the allocation of electoral votes. The District of Columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a State for purposes of the Electoral College under the 23rd Amendment of the Constitution.
Each candidate running for President in your State has his or her own group of electors known as a slate.
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