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  2. United States presidential election - Wikipedia

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    The election of the president and for vice president of the United States is an indirect election in which citizens of the United States who are registered to vote in one of the fifty U.S. states or in Washington, D.C., cast ballots not directly for those offices, but instead for members of the Electoral College.

  3. President-elect of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The section also provides that if the president-elect dies before noon on January 20, the vice president-elect becomes president-elect. In cases where there is no president-elect or vice president-elect, the amendment also gives the Congress the authority to declare an acting president until such time as there is a president or vice president.

  4. President of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The amendment bars anyone from being elected president more than twice, or once if that person served more than two years (24 months) of another president's four-year term. Harry S. Truman, the president at the time it was submitted to the states by the Congress, was exempted from its limitations. Without the exemption, he would not have been ...

  5. Electoral College: How it’s changed this year

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    How is a president elected in the US? When voters cast ballots on Election Day, they are actually selecting a slate of electors tied to that candidate. The winning slate of electors in each state ...

  6. Why the United States president is not elected by popular ...

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    A U.S. president can be elected without the majority of the popular vote The Electoral College recognizes and supports an important principle not supported by a national popular vote for the top ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    The Twelfth Amendment requires a person to receive a majority of the electoral votes for vice president for that person to be elected vice president by the Electoral College. If no candidate for vice president has a majority of the total votes, the Senate, with each senator having one vote, chooses the vice president.

  9. Donald Trump is elected 47th president of the United States ...

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    Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States, has become America’s 47th president after crossing the 270 electoral college-vote threshold necessary to clinch the presidential election ...