The Electoral College...

I get all 34 electoral votes in the Electoral College

He won 375 electoral votes.

But what exactly is the Electoral College?

If you currently add up the electoral votes of those three states, you would have 96 electoral votes.

So how do states even get electoral votes?

Instead we use something called the Electoral College

Some critics of the electoral college argue the system gives an unfair advantage to states with large numbers of electoral votes.

But despite our electoral mandate, the markets mistrusted us.

It's since been deployed in Mexico to track electoral fraud.

Most people have heard of the Electoral College during presidential election years.

We can open up city hall. We can reform our electoral systems.

Let's say you're a voter in California, a state with 55 electoral votes.

In the past four election cycles, Ohio and Florida have been swing states, twice providing electoral votes for a Democratic candidate, and twice providing electoral votes for a Republican candidate.

If your candidate wins in California, they get all 55 of the state's electoral votes.

And this has continued and kind of even become more intense after their electoral succes.

Because ultimately, that electoral outcome had nothing to do with the rest of the world.

I will get all of the votes for California in the Electoral College, and in general, or in actuallity, the president is whoever gets the majority of the electoral votes in the United States.

Connecticut and West Virginia, they would only gain 31 electoral votes total from those eight states.

The electoral commissioner declared, with the consent of the parties, to run an unprecedented second re run.

We should make an electoral system, in which each party will support or back up female candidates.

This means that the winner may have won and collected their electoral votes by small margins, winning just enough states with just enough electoral votes, but the losing candidate may have captured large voter margins in the remaining states.

That's because a candidate can't completely ignore small states, because in a close election, every electoral vote counts.

If no candidate is able to hit this threshold of 270 Electoral College votes than it'll go to the US Congress

The census is conducted every 10 years, so every time the census happens, states might gain or lose a few electoral votes.

On a rare occasion, like in the year 2000, someone can win the popular vote but fail to gain 270 electoral votes.

And right now that threshold is or that magic number, you could think of it that way is 270 Electoral College votes.

And also the Attorney General... ...and the head of the Central Bank... ...and the Ombudsman... ...and the members of the National Electoral Board.

We have electoral tribunals, which would be responsible for addressing these issues and attending to these complaints, the ones voiced by candidate López Obrador.

It turns out that electoral competition is the thing that's doing the damage with democracy, whereas strong checks and balances make resource booms good.

Therefore, the losing candidate may have gained more than 50 of the ballots cast by voters, but failed to gain 270 of the electoral votes.

However, others argue that the electoral college protects small states such as Rhode Island, Vermont and New Hampshire, and even geographically large states with small populations

Because there are two distinct aspects of democracy there's electoral competition, which determines how you acquire power, and there are checks and balances, which determine how you use power.

liberal reformists are trying hard to co opt this movement, and pacify it into something managable that will inevitably lead people to the fucking useless charade of electoral politics.

With pro reform forces strengthening their position in the new parliament, the government has two choices. It can go along with electoral reform, or it can find an opportunity to dissolve the new parliament.

Essentially, the Democratic candidate and Republican candidate are each trying to add up the electors in every state so that they surpass 270 electoral votes, or just over half the 538 votes, and win the presidency.

Overall, that s 60 of the seats in Parliament, won in nearly every district in the West Bank and Gaza. Hamas entered electoral politics only recently, but its massive victory was preceded by wide success in municipal elections.

Washington DC right over here in Congress gets no Representatives they have no Senators and they have no Representatives but they do get 3 electoral votes when it comes to deciding who is going to be president.

Now you could imagine the other kind of unfair thing here other than the popular vote versus the you know, the electoral college vote, is it, you can imagine it makes some states better represented than others.

And do not forget, when you are watching the electoral returns on election night every four years and the big map of the United States is on the screen, know that the magic number is 270 and start adding.

So in this situation, this candidate might actually end up with the majority barely losing the states they lose and trouncing the other candidate in the states that they win but despite that actually getting fewer Electoral College votes.

Nebraska has 3 congressional districts so in those 3 congressional districts if one of them goes to the democrat and two of them goes republican then they'll have 1 electoral vote for the democrat and 2 for the republican.

For the last 30 years, political scientists have observed that there is a constant decline in electoral turnout, and the people who are least interested to vote are the people whom you expect are going to gain most out of voting.

The first unknown is why the election is taking place at all. Chancellor Gerhard Schröder had another fifteen months to go before the end of the electoral term, and it seemed that he had no difficulty mobilizing his admittedly slender majority in parliament.

Anwar s bizarre trial and sentencing on charges of sodomy and abuse of power invigorated the reformasi movement, as growing anti UMNO and anti Mahathir sentiments took hold among Islamic minded Malays. This culminated in poor electoral results for the ruling coalition in November 1999.