Sentences with phrase «appoint electors»

If you could convince the state legislatures totaling exactly 36 electoral votes to exercise their option to appoint electors for Clinton, regardless of the plurality vote, Clinton and Trump would both have 269 electoral votes, which would force the election to the House of Representatives, with each state receiving one vote.

In other words, a state legislature does not appear to have an obligation to appoint electors based on the popular plurality vote, and this presumably applies even if an election has already been held.

If states fail to appoint electors due to a recount, those states» electoral votes will not be counted, but then it's as if those states» electoral votes don't exist at all because they failed to appoint electors.

In the early 19th century, most states did not hold popular elections for presidential electors and the legislature just chose them directly; as time went on, more and more states changed to doing popular vote for them, but as recently as 1876, the Colorado legislature appointed its electors rather than hold an election because it was newly admitted and didn't have the time to do so.

The right of voting was restricted to «appointed electors» (which is still the case in the electoral college in the US and many other institutions), which were often local men of power, in other words wealthy bourgeois.

@SJuan76 is correct: it's a majority of the appointed electors.

If someone's serious about doing this, the big push now would be to get Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin voters to push their legislatures to at least consider appointing electors contrary to election results.

Not exact matches

The person having the greatest Number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President.

Catholic governance is a closed circle, a feedback loop where popes appoint bishops of like mind and bishops, as elector cardinals, elect a pope of like mind.

The electors of President and Vice President shall be appointed, in each State, on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, in every fourth year succeeding every election of a President and Vice President.

Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.

The Twelfth Amendment specifies that the winner must have a majority of the electors appointed.

In the originally - envisioned system, Presidential electors are appointed by the states; the states decide how those electors are chosen.

The person having the greatest number of [electoral] votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed

@ElgsQianChen - Not sure if it's the case in all states, but in mine (Michigan) each party appoints a full set of electors at a convention a few weeks before the election.

The Founding Fathers only said in the U.S. Constitution about presidential elections (only after debating among 30 ballots for choosing a method): «Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors...» The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly characterized the authority of the state legislatures over the manner of awarding their electoral votes as «plenary» and «exclusive.»

Also, if the Republican state committee feels a particular elector is faithless, they can appoint a new elector.

Electors are, however, nominated and appointed by sitting political parties.

Article II, Section 1 says only that «each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors...» There is no requirement that the state should hold an election to determine the appointment of the eElectors...» There is no requirement that the state should hold an election to determine the appointment of the electorselectors.

The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such Majority, and have an equal Number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse by Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like Manner chuse the President.

Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.

The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two - thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice.

The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct: A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment.

The constitution «does not confer the franchise [the right to vote for President] on «U.S. citizens» but on «Electors» who are to be «appoint [ed]» by each «State».

So there are a lot of provisions related to voting on a federal level, e.g. the electoral college is described in article II (interestingly, clause 2 says: «Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors -LSB-...]») and the 17th amendment prescribes the direct election of senators in each state -LRB-» -LSB-...] two Senators from each State, elected by the people -LSB-...]»).

(3) The returning officer may, subject to the approval of the Chief Electoral Officer, appoint two persons as revising agents for the purpose of adding to the list of electors the names of qualified electors of a particular area, section or building containing multiple dwelling units within the electoral district.

71 (1) For the purpose of determining the candidate who obtained the highest number of votes and within the four days, Sunday being excluded, following the official tabulation made by the returning officer, a judge may appoint a time and place to recount the votes cast at the election in the electoral district upon the application of a candidate or elector if it is made to appear by affidavit that,

(2) If an elector whose name appears on a polling list for the polling division where he or she resides has been appointed to act as a deputy returning officer, poll clerk or scrutineer at a polling place other than his or her own but in the same electoral district, an application may be made to the revising official for a certificate to vote at the other polling place.

The Constitution requires: Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress... and by the Twelfth Amendment: The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for...