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  2. How does the electoral college work?

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    What is the electoral college? The electoral college is made up of 538 electors — one for every representative and senator in Congress, plus three for the District of Columbia.

  3. How the Electoral College Actually Works

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    Why we have the Electoral College. The rules for the Electoral College are outlined in the 12th Amendment of the Constitution. Because democracy was a new idea at the time, says Field, the nation ...

  4. United States Electoral College - Wikipedia

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    The Electoral College was officially selected as the means of electing president towards the end of the Constitutional Convention, due to pressure from slave states wanting to increase their voting power, since they could count slaves as 3/5 of a person when allocating electors, and by small states who increased their power given the minimum of ...

  5. Explainer-Key facts about the Electoral College and the 2024 ...

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    (Reuters) -In the United States, a candidate becomes president not by winning a majority of the national popular vote but through a system called the Electoral College, which allots electoral ...

  6. Electoral college - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  7. What is the US electoral college, and how does it work?

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    Generally, states award all their electoral college votes to whoever wins the poll of ordinary voters in the state. For example, if a candidate wins 50.1% of the vote in Texas, they are given all ...

  8. What is the Electoral College and how does it work? What to ...

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    The Electoral College is how the president of the United States is elected. In the U.S., there are 538 votes up for grabs between all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

  9. How the Electoral College actually works [Video]

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