The Electoral College's Role in the 2024 Election

National Constitution Center ^ | October 31, 2024 | by Scott Bomboy

[thecodont]

The Process of Electing a President and Vice President

The electors of each state convene after the election on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December. Any disputes within the states over electors must be resolved by Dec. 11, 2024, when the executive officer of each state signs a Certificate of Ascertainment to appoint the electors chosen by voters in the general election.

On Dec. 17, 2024, the electors in each state will meet to select the president and vice president of the United States. They almost always meet in person at the state or federal district capital. In 48 of 50 states, only the electors who represent the candidate with the most popular votes on Election Day each get to cast votes in the Electoral College election. (Maine and Nebraska split votes by congressional district.)

[Jacquerie]

Alexander Hamilton explained the purpose of the EC in Federalist 68.

It wasn’t to spread votes around the republic.

[Verginius Rufus]

The first Monday after the second Wednesday in December is December 16 this year. So why are they voting on December 17?

[ChronicMA]

They changed the law. It used to be a Monday. In 2022 it was changed to a Tuesday. The OP quotes the old law.

[No name given]

I thought it was the 18th.

[Political Junkie Too]

The Electoral College's Role in the 2024 Election

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it was the same as in all the prior elections back to 1804?

-PJ

[damper99]

I hope the democrats haven’t tried to rig these votes to revive Kamala.

[The Great RJ]

Tomorrow the election is all but done, but I expect Antifa and the extreme of the Democratic Party will show up in Washington on January 6 for a photo op and to make fools of themselves. The lame stream media, still stinging from the Trump tsunami, will give scant attention to these fools as most of the American people will be celebrating a return to sanity.