Sentences with phrase «electoral votes a state»

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But black votes for Obama were inconsequential in preventing Alabama's nine electoral votes from being delivered to John McCain and Mitt Romney, both of whom defeated Obama in that state with 60 % of the vote.

Black migrants from the South fanned out to cities across the Midwest and Northeast — St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Philadelphia, New York — in states that happened to be rich in electoral votes.

In tandem, the campaign is investing heavily in next - door Pennsylvania, a more Democrat - friendly state whose 20 electoral votes would make Trump's overall victory all the more unreachable.

Second, the electoral college got stuck in to provide a last line of defense against public stupidity — in case you didn't know it, the electors aren't legally bound to vote as their state's majority has.

While Florida remains the only swing state that's still too close to call, Obama bested his Republican challenger Mitt Romney regardless, as he raked in at least 303 electoral votes during yesterday's election.

Brandon Watson explains why the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact --- in which states assign their votes in the electoral college to whoever wins the most votes countrywide --- is sheer madhattery:

Though its electoral successes were widespread at the local and state level the success of the early Socialist Party as a movement with mass was very much linked to the personality of Eugene V. Debs who polled nearly a million votes in the presidential campaign of 1912.

One of the simplest means of dealing with this even retains the electoral college: have the EC allocate its votes for each state proportionately to the vote, regardless of electoral district (which also renders gerrymandering almost irrelevant, since the state is considered as a whole).

In 1788 there were 69 total electoral votes from 10 states.

For state D, with its 4 votes in the electoral college, there are two ways of deciding the coalitions that will not see it win:

Despite not getting a majority, the Republicans would still get all six electoral votes from that state.

Define a coalition as winning if the total number of electoral votes of the state in that coalition is 270 or more (let's ignore at first that two small states make things more complicated by allowing a mixed elector group).

Let's suppose a smaller country, with 4 states, conveniently named A, B, C, and D, having 1, 2, 3, and 4 votes in that country's electoral college each respectively.

This kind of landmark judicial pronouncement is understandably rare in every jurisdiction not excluding the most advanced democracies for the obvious reason that it has always been considered prudent for the preservation of the state, democracy and the peace to ensure that proactive mechanisms are put in place before, during and after voting day to deliver credible electoral outcomes rather than rely on costly post electoral judicial reviews.

In the recent 2012 election, if all states had switched to «proportional» allocation of electoral votes, what effect would that have had on the outcome?

Several states have laws that purport to restrict or punish faithless electors for their electoral votes.

Second, the electoral college was set up to weed out «unacceptable» candidates not by dividing fringe voters in different states per se but by giving the electors the power to elect the candidate who lost the popular vote in the event that the more popular candidate turned out to be unacceptable for whatever reason.

In the last congressional election in Brazil (where all candidates run state - wide rather than in electoral districts) the candidate who received the most votes in the state of Sao Paulo was a television clown.

Recent stark examples of the absurdity in a «winner - takes - all» system occurred in Florida and New Mexico during the 2000 presidential election when candidate George W. Bush won both states by a fraction of a percentage point, but gained the total number of each state's electoral votes.

For example, three Candidates A, B and C receive 60, 37, and 3 per cent of the popular vote in State X. Because State X has 10 electoral votes, the candidate would receive 6, 4 and 0 electoral votes, respectively (see Table 1).

Although his book centres upon the UK, Goodhart explains that it can also account for the victory of President Trump: Trump consolidated the somewhere vote in key electoral college states.

The constitutionally tortious conduct is not subject to congressional immunity and would be the jettison of Article II of the Constitution by failure to stop and / or object to the counting of electoral votes for Barack H. Obama who has admitted that at the time of his birth his father was a Kenyan / British citizen and not a citizen of the United States of America.

Moreover, each and every member of Congress should be notified that he or she is personally liable (can be sued) for his or her own failure, or the same in conspiracy with other members, to perform what is a ministerial and constitutional duty, that is, to require and / or insist that Presidential electoral votes only be counted for candidates who are «natural born citizens» under Article II of the United States Constitution, the failure of which creates a cause of action for deprivation of claimants» constitutional rights (as allowed under the Bivens case) against employees of the Federal Government, in this case, to a lawful President and Commander in Chief, and therefore, for deprivation of adequate continuation of the United States as a Constitutional Republic.

Subsequently, votes would be distributed to candidates on a proportional basis: candidates would receive a fraction of the electoral votes of each state, equivalent to the percentage of the popular vote they garnered during the election.

It is key to note that not all candidates who run for office will receive electoral votes, as they will need to meet a popular vote threshold specific to each state.

In fact, Democrats have only controlled both chambers twice in the last twenty years (103rd and 110th Congresses) and historical data show that there are thirteen states that Democrats have not won in the last seven elections,, and five they have only won once, totaling almost 160 electoral votes.

In light of our results, «we recommend that electoral studies outside the United States offer respondents face - saving options when asking them to report their voting behaviour in post-election surveys.»

In addition, under the electoral college a third party can tip the balance in a closely contested state by siphoning a few votes from a major - party candidate.

... Clinton would actually have won a few more electoral votes in 2016 had all states used proportional allocation by district (though she'd still fall short of 270).

The US Presidential election uses an «electoral college» system, where each state gets a certain number of «electors» (votes), and those electors cast the official votes for President.

This is exemplified in Table 2 where a distribution of 57, 37 and 6 per cent in a state with 10 electoral votes translates into 6, 4 and 1 votes respectively.

On Rivers» general electoral anarchy: «Shocking cases of cold blooded killings and beheading, obstruction of votes, arson, voter intimidation, ballot snatching, missing result sheets, presenting of fake ballot papers, multiple thumb - printing, campaigning at polling units, compromise of ad - hoc staffs, absence of level playing environment, violence against media personnel and impunity were witnessed in different magnitude across the length and breadth of the state.

Bryan - Watson didn't carry any states, but Watson got 27 electoral votes.

A ghost ballot occurs when three or more candidates receive a percentage of the vote in a manner that causes the electoral votes to round up and exceed the allotted state votes.

Some states are «proportional», giving a candidate a percentage of electoral votes based upon their percentage of the popular vote.

According to its supporters, one of the primary virtues of the electoral college is that winning candidates must obtainconcurrent majorities from around the country to win, rather than appeal to clusters of voters whose votes could be aggregated across states and regions but nevertheless might not represent all strata of society.

That is, let's say that there was a constitutional amendment in place that, instead of abolishing the electoral college, required that the votes be split in each state (somewhat like ME and NE but simpler.)

By contrast, the unit rule (by which states award all their electoral votes to the plurality winner in the state) that 48 states employ under the electoral college encourages third parties, especially regional candidates like Strom Thurmond in 1948 or George Wallace in 1968.

Those two ways are: (1) small states have more electoral votes than big states relatively to their population, (2) the countries is...

This means that States are constitutionally mandated to follow Article II, Section 1, Clause 3 (which defines the electoral college) and the 12th amendment (which amends the electoral college's voting process).

Some states have moved to a more proportional allocation of their electoral college votes.

Their agenda includes electoral reforms like early voting, a strengthening of the state abortion laws, creation of a single - payer health care system, criminal justice changes like an end to cash bail, passage of the Child Victims Act, enactment of pro-immigration measures like creation of a state DREAM Act and the issuance of drivers» licenses to undocumented immigrants.

Subsequently, the joint session of Congress certified the electoral votes from all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

At the extreme end, Congress might refuse to certify an electoral college result, so only the other state votes would count.

The Senate also granted final legislative approval Saturday to a bill allowing Connecticut to join an interstate compact that would ensure the state's electoral votes go to the presidential candidate who wins the national popular vote, provided enough other states join the agreement.

Maine and one other state I can't remember (probably NE) divide their electoral votes based on Senate districting (I believe).

Consider his interactions with the Working Families Party, a homegrown New York third party of unions and liberal groups that, because of the state's unique fusion voting system, has become an electoral powerhouse over the past decade.

Former President Bill Clinton, left, and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo vote in the state's electoral college at the Senate chamber in Albany on Dec. 19, 2016.

The number of electoral votes for each state may change whenever there is a Census and reapportionment of congressional districts.

This also assumes that A. Each state hands out electoral votes using popular vote, and B.