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  2. Contingent election - Wikipedia

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    The presidential electors in turn cast electoral votes for the two offices. Electors normally pledge to vote for their party's nominee, but some "faithless electors" have voted for other candidates. A candidate must receive an absolute majority of electoral votes (currently 270) to win the presidency or the vice presidency. If no candidate ...

  3. Vice President-elect of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Vice President-elect Dan Quayle (second from right) and his wife Marilyn with Vice President and President-elect George H. W. Bush and his wife Barbara, as well as outgoing president Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy during a press conference held in the White House Rose Garden during the 1988–89 presidential transition of George H. W. Bush

  4. Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President ...

  5. United States Electoral College - Wikipedia

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    The Senate is responsible for electing the vice president, with each senator having one vote. [24] The elected president and vice president are inaugurated on January 20. Since 1964, there have been 538 electors. States select 535 of the electors, this number matches the aggregate total of their congressional delegations.

  6. The road to the White House is through the Electoral College ...

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    When do electors vote? The electors will meet on Dec. 17 to officially cast their votes and send the results to Congress. The candidate that wins 270 electoral votes or more becomes president.

  7. Electoral Count Act - Wikipedia

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    The act clarified the vice president's limited role in the count. [4] [8]: 551–553 [9] Both houses could overrule the vice president's decision to include or exclude votes, and under the Act even if the chambers disagree, the governor's certification, not the vice president, broke the tie. On many occasions, the vice president has had the ...

  8. Where JD Vance stands on certifying the 2020 election and ...

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    Rick Hasen, an election law expert and professor at the UCLA School of Law, said it's the states that are empowered to contest their results and proffer slates of electors — not the vice president.

  9. Can U.S. president and vice president be from the same state ...

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    The first sentence of the 12th Amendment states “ (T)he Electors shall meet…, and vote by ballot for President and Vice President, one of whom, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state ...