Facts
1) Each state gets two electoral votes in addition to "votes equal to the state's delegation" in the House.
2) The total number of votes that each candidate receives in an election are not added up and compared.
3) A reason why the Electoral College was created was because it was "a mathod of achieving objective" without giving Congress power to elect the president.
5) "The two-party system doomed any hope that the Electoral College would choose the 'best' person to be President, since the choice would be limited to the candidates picked by the parties."
6) If the president was just determined via popular vote, then "a state would no longer be a relevant entity for purposes of determining the winner of the election."
7) "All states select their Presidential electors by popular vote..."
8) If there is a very small margin of victory between the two candidates, then the House would have chosen the president.
9) The Constitution did not mention a "method for resolving disputes over electors."
10) There was a bill to "abolish the Electoral College in favor of a nationwide popular vote with a runoff if no candidate received at least 40 percent of the vote."
Questions
1) If the first candidate to reach 270 wins, how... is that fair?
2) Difference between popular vote and electoral college vote?
3) "Florida's experience suggests that Democratic voters are morelikely than Republican ones to spoil their ballots." What does the author mean by "spoil"?
4) How many of the votes could be fake? ("not to mention outright fraud, which remains common, especially with regard to absentee ballots"
5) Difference between pleurality and majority?
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