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Process of choosing the President Electoral College Process of choosing the President

What is it? Why do we have it? How we elect the President. It is a compromise between: Election by Congress Direct popular election

How does it work? Each state is given the same # of electors as Reps + Sen. Each candidate submits its slate of electors in each state On election day in Nov. voters choose electors

Electors meet in state capitol in Dec to cast ballots How it works (cont) In 48 states the winner of the popular election gets all that states elector ME & NE have a district plan Electors meet in state capitol in Dec to cast ballots

Electoral ballots are opened by Congress @ 1st meeting in January How it works (still) Electoral ballots are opened by Congress @ 1st meeting in January 270 of 538 required President takes office on Jan 20th

Near Failures of System? 1800 - T Jefferson & Aaron Burr (same party) each had 73 electoral votes - Jefferson was chosen by House on 36th attempt - Led to the passing of the 12th Amendment

1876 - Rutherford B. Hayes lost the popular election to Samuel Tilden (48% to 51%) - Electoral votes disputed in 4 states - Committee in House gave states to Hayes in exchange to end Reconstruction

1888 - Cleveland received 48.6% of popular vote while B. Harrison received 47.8% Harrison won electoral college with 233 votes to Cleveland’s 168 votes

1960 -JFK won with 303 electoral votes to Nixon’s 219 - Results were much closer in popular vote with JFK receiving 49.7% to Nixon’s 49.5%

2000 - Al Gore received 539,947 more popular votes than George W. Bush - Bush won with 271 EC votes to Gore’s 266

Proposed Amendments Over 700 proposals have been offered Most popular plans: District Plan Proportional Plan Direct Popular Vote National Bonus Plan