Sentences with phrase «electors chosen»

Almost all states follow a «winner - takes - all» policy: if a candidate gets a plurality of the vote in that state, then the group of electors chosen by that candidate's party are the ones who vote.

While the exact rules vary from state to state, essentially a voter is voting for a set of electors chosen by the party, and the most votes for a given party / candidate selects that set of electors, so where there is winner takes all, the set of electors is equal to the total number of electors for that state

It's impossible to say whether Trump would have done better or worse than under the electoral college, making the petition to have the electors choose Hilary Clinton instead misguided, at least insofar as they rely on the popular vote outcome as justification.

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.

At each level, representatives would be chosen from among persons with whom the electors have worked closely.

Of that group, 103 were cardinal electors who will choose the next pope.

I mean 51 % voters picked 20 electors who supports candidate A, and 49 % of them voted for 20 electors supporting candidate B. Which one electors will be chose to «final» voting (sorry for lack of specialist vocabulary)?

Who chose these 30 electors?

If a state has 30 electors and party A wins with 51 % of the popular vote, then 30 electors supporting the candidate for party A will be chosen.

Each elector must choose which election to participate in.

But, Article II Section 1 Clause 2 explicitly delegates the choosing of Electors to state legislatures.

As for the presidential election, states actually choose «electors», and those electors go to the Electoral College.

The US Constitution is actually a non-issue here because it only prescribes how and when the electors will choose President and Vice President.

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.

On the morning of October 4, the Pennsylvania Senate State Government Committee heard testimony for and against SB 1282, the bill to provide that each U.S. House district would choose its own presidential elector.

Since the Civil War, all states have chosen electors according to popular vote, but ballot access rules (for the general...

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

In fact, the entire process of choosing electors is left up to the states, they just need to...

Accordingly, states could hold an election, but in most the state legislature chose the electors.

Traditional voting reminds electors that they are choosing a representative for their community.

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.»

This is the bill to provide that each U.S. House district would choose its own presidential elector.

George Will has published this column, opposing Pennsylvania SB 1282, the bill to let each U.S. House district choose its own presidential elector.

The lists are closed, so electors may not choose individual candidates in or alter the order of such lists.

As electoral slates are typically chosen by the political party or the party's presidential nominee, electors usually have high loyalty to the party and its candidate: a faithless elector runs a greater risk of party censure than criminal charges.

For example, in 2000 elector Barbara Lett - Simmons of Washington, D.C. chose not to vote, rather than voting for Al Gore as she had pledged to do.

In other words, the presidential election on Nov. 8th is to choose «electors» who usually pledge to vote for particular candidates.

Article III, Section 6 of the Idaho Constitution states: No person shall be a senator or representative who, at the time of his election, is not a citizen of the United States, and an elector of this state, nor anyone who has not been for one year next preceding his election an elector of the county or district whence he may be chosen.

New York state law requires ballot - qualified parties to choose their presidential elector candidates no later than September 10 this year.

A bill, SB 1282, is pending in the Pennsylvania legislature to provide that each U.S. House district should choose its own presidential elector.

Generally, each party will nominate a panel of electors and decide in their own committees who is chosen.

In theory, the electors of each riding could return an Independent candidate, and it would be up to all of those Independents to work together to choose a Prime Minister from among their number.

The Constitution of the United States says that state legislatures are to decide how presidential electors are chosen.

The justices of the supreme court shall be chosen by the electors of the state for ten - year terms, so arranged that one justice is elected every two years.

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 House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.