Electoral College

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Basically the Electoral College system works like this today. Every ten years the census figures adjusts how many representatives each state has. This number plus two, representing the two senators, equals how many electors each state has, aside from DC which has 3 electors. Then each state has the right to decide how to select these electors. Forty-eight states use the general ticket system, the other two, Maine and Nebraska, use the district system. The general ticket system is suppose to operate as follows. There is a direct vote election held in each state and the winner of the vote is suppose to get all of that states electoral votes. In 24 states the electors are required to use there electoral vote to vote for the candidate who received the majority. The other 24 states electors can really vote for who ever they want but tend to vote for the popular vote of that state. In Maine and Nebraska there is an election held in each district. The winner of each district gets one electoral vote towards a presidential candidate, and the candidate with the most electoral votes gets the remaining two electoral votes. Then all of the votes are counted, and if a candidate gets more than half the votes, he/she becomes the new president. If there is no majority then the election gets thrown into the House of Representatives. There each state is given one vote and they vote on the top three candidates. If a candidate gets a majority vote, then he/she becomes president. If not they continue voting until a majority is reached and the speaker of the house become a temporary president until a majority is reached....