Explaining US electoral vote

[kowalskil]

The ongoing debates (August 2015) among potential Republican presidential candidates reminded me of a note I posted several years ago. Below is a link to an updated (and hopefully better) version of this note:

http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/presidentEN.htm

How can a retired teacher miss an opportunity for sharing what he thinks he understands better? Feel free to share the above link with all who might be interested, especially students. Comments will be appreciated, as usual.

Ludwik Kowalski, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus,
Montclair State University
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[BoyBleu]

Your article is a pretty good summary of the U.S. system. However, it's not that simple in actual practice. The individual States say how their electoral voters are chosen, and many have passed state legislation that requires their electoral voters to vote according to the State election results in a winner-take-all situation (a few electoral voters have not voted as they pledged to do). Two states, Maine and Nebraska, divide their electoral votes proportionally. Another good article that explains how the electoral system works and suggests ways to improve it can be found at the following link:

http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2012/Info/electoral-college.html

 

[kowalskil]

Your article is a pretty good summary of the U.S. system. However, it's not that simple in actual practice. The individual States say how their electoral voters are chosen, and many have passed state legislation that requires their electoral voters to vote according to the State election results in a winner-take-all situation (a few electoral voters have not voted as they pledged to do). Two states, Maine and Nebraska, divide their electoral votes proportionally. Another good article that explains how the electoral system works and suggests ways to improve it can be found at the following link:

http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2012/Info/electoral-college.html

Your article is a pretty good summary of the U.S. system. However, it's not that simple in actual practice. The individual States say how their electoral voters are chosen, and many have passed state legislation that requires their electoral voters to vote according to the State election results in a winner-take-all situation (a few electoral voters have not voted as they pledged to do). Two states, Maine and Nebraska, divide their electoral votes proportionally. Another good article that explains how the electoral system works and suggests ways to improve it can be found at the following link:

http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2012/Info/electoral-college.html

Your article is a pretty good summary of the U.S. system. However, it's not that simple in actual practice. The individual States say how their electoral voters are chosen, and many have passed state legislation that requires their electoral voters to vote according to the State election results in a winner-take-all situation (a few electoral voters have not voted as they pledged to do). Two states, Maine and Nebraska, divide their electoral votes proportionally. Another good article that explains how the electoral system works and suggests ways to improve it can be found at the following link:

http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2012/Info/electoral-college.html

 

[kowalskil]

Thank you for the comment, BB. Nothing it as simple as it should be.

 

[BoyBleu]

True. Sad, but true.