The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President. Your state’s entitled allotment of electors equals the number of members in its Congressional delegation: one for each member in the House of Representatives plus two for your Senators. Read more about the allocation of electoral votes.
Under the 23rd Amendment of the Constitution, the District of Columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the Electoral College. For this reason, in the following discussion, the word “state” also refers to the District of Columbia.
Each candidate running for President in your state has his or her own group of electors. The electors are generally chosen by the candidate’s political party, but state laws vary on how the electors are selected and what their responsibilities are. Read more about the qualifications of the Electors and restrictions on who the Electors may vote for.
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Most states have a “winner-take-all” system that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate. However, Maine and Nebraska each have a variation of “proportional representation.” Read more about the allocation of Electors among the states and try to predict the outcome of the Electoral College vote."
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I already know it’s not right, but I have yet to see any clear case of how this national popular vote initiative somehow violates the federal constitution. I would hope that someone could point out the plain language in the constitution.
The constitution leaves it to the states to decide how they distribute their electors. If a states citizens are foolish enough to give their electors to the winner of the ‘national popular vote’ then they will get what they deserve. And also take into account that there’s no constitutional basis to force an elector to vote for a particular candidate. They could be a faithless elector. I just don’t want to pretend like this national popular vote initiative is somehow unconstitutional. Because while i wish it was, i dont believe it is.