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purpose of voting for the president and vice president. The process is described in Article II of the U.S. Constitution. The number of electoral votes a state...

electors or with votes weighted in a particular way. The United States has been the only democracy in the 21st century that still uses an electoral college to...

the electoral college returns gave Jackson only 99 votes, 32 fewer than he needed for a majority of the total votes cast. Adams won 84 electoral votes, followed...

Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is an agreement among a group of U.S. states and the District of Columbia to award all their electoral votes to whichever...

fifty percent of the electoral vote is an entirely open issue.": 653  For example, if there are currently 538 total votes, and all votes from a state that...

Spotted Eagle in 2016 are the only women to receive electoral votes for president; Spotted Eagle's single vote was from a faithless elector, and she was also...

day. Electoral votes for Maine and Nebraska are allocated between statewide vote and congressional districts. With Vermont's 3 electoral votes, Joe Biden...

polls on the state level, thus simulating the process by which Electoral College votes are determined in the actual election. Updated throughout the campaign...

An electoral or voting system is a set of rules used to determine the results of an election. Electoral systems are used in politics to elect governments...

citizens who are registered to vote cast ballots for members of the Electoral College, who then cast electoral votes for president and vice president...

an additional two electoral votes. In states that employ FPTP-GT, the presidential candidate gaining the greatest number of votes wins all the state's...

†Trump received 36 of Texas's 38 electoral votes, while two faithless electors voted for other candidates Electoral votes of the party that won in 2020:...

won the Electoral College; the election was thrown to the Congress, which chose John Quincy Adams. The following list indicates lifetime votes received...

direct votes, known as electoral votes, for president, and for vice president. The candidate who receives an absolute majority of electoral votes (at least...

elections; the votes cast on Election Day are not cast directly for a candidate, but for members of the Electoral College. The Electoral College's electors...

Electoral College votes, and then, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, opens the sealed votes. The Electoral Count Act of 1887...

of these states have relatively few electoral votes – a total of 4 and 5, respectively. Nebraska has split its votes since 1992, and Maine has done so since...

electoral votes Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District, 2.24% (6,534 votes) – 1 electoral vote Nevada, 2.42% (27,202 votes) – 6 electoral votes Maine, 2...

the general election, with 306 electoral votes to Trump's 232. Biden received more than 81 million votes, the most votes ever cast for a candidate in a...

Electoral fraud, sometimes referred to as election manipulation, voter fraud, or vote rigging, involves illegal interference with the process of an election...