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The Voting Credential (Spanish: Credencial para Votar), also known as Elector Credential (Spanish: Credencial de Elector), INE Card (Spanish: Tarjeta INE; formerly IFE Card, Spanish: Tarjeta IFE), [1] and Mexican Voter ID Card (Spanish: Tarjeta de Identificación de Votación Mexicana), is an official document issued by the National Electoral Institute (INE) that allows Mexican citizens of ...
"The "free" state of Pennsylvania had 10% more free persons than Virginia but got 20% fewer electoral votes." [ 103 ] Pennsylvania split eight to seven for Jefferson, favoring Jefferson with a majority of 53% in a state with 0.1% slave population.
In 1864, 17 electoral votes from Louisiana and Tennessee (received by Abraham Lincoln) were rejected due to issues relating to the American Civil War. In 1872: 14 votes from Arkansas and Louisiana (received by Ulysses S. Grant) were rejected due to various irregularities, including allegations of electoral fraud.
Furthermore, a candidate can win the electoral vote without securing the greatest amount of the national popular vote, such as during the 1824, 1876, 1888, 2000 and 2016 elections. It would even be possible in theory to secure the necessary 270 electoral votes from only the twelve most populous states [a] and ignore the rest of the country.
The margin of victory in a presidential election is the difference between the number of Electoral College votes garnered by the candidate with an absolute majority of electoral votes (since 1964, it has been 270 out of 538) and the number received by the second place candidate (currently in the range of 2 to 538, a margin of one vote is only possible with an odd total number of electors or a ...
Electoral Design Reference Materials from the ACE Project; PARLINE database from the Inter-Parliamentary Union; Political Database of the Americas - Georgetown University; Project for Global Democracy and Human Rights This page links to a table and a world map that is color-coded by the primary electoral system used by each country.
An electoral college is a body whose task is to elect a candidate to a particular office. It is mostly used in the political context for a constitutional body that appoints the head of state or government , and sometimes the upper parliamentary chamber , in a democracy.
Electoral rolls are the result of a process of voter registration. In most jurisdictions, voter registration (and being listed on an electoral roll) is a prerequisite for voting at an election. Some jurisdictions do not require voter registration, and do not use electoral rolls, such as the state of North Dakota in the United States. In those ...