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1. Welcome to the Electoral Council of Australia
- www.eca.gov.au
- The Electoral Council is a consultative council of Electoral Commissioners and Chief Electoral Officers from the electoral authorities of the Commonwealth, States and Territories. ...
- The ECA consults on the management of electoral rolls for Commonwealth, State, Territory and Local Government elections to maximise their accuracy and integrity and ensure efficient and effective roll methodologies are implemented and considers matters which will facilitate or improve Australian electoral administration. ...
2. The Electoral College
- www.uky.edu
- The Electoral College .
- Only prominent people like some of the heroes among the Founding Fathers were expected to win an election in the Electoral College.
- The Electoral College was a way in which the states would have a voice in the election of a President. States are represented in the Electoral College according to their total number of representatives in the legislative branch. In other words, a state like Kentucky has six Representatives and two Senators; this means that Kentucky has eight electoral votes.
- Since the Electoral College did not work in 1824 (John Quincy Adams was elected by the House), the supporters of Andrew Jackson went to work on the state level and got the vote extended to the common man and they also got most states to allow the Electors to be elected by popular vote. ... This rule says that whichever candidate gets a plurality of the vote in a state gets all of the electoral vote of that state.
- Add the Electoral College system to this and this gives us a system few people in the general population will ever completely comprehend.
- It is now time to include an Electoral College map followed by a detailed explanation of how the system works. Explanation of the Electoral College: The number of representatives are determined by the total number of representatives that state has in Congress (Senate and House). For example, KY has 6 Representatives and 2 Senators; therefore 8 electoral votes.
- The presidential election should be viewed as 51 separate elections for electoral votes. ... ) The key to victory is to win enough votes to total 270 (a majority of the total of 538) electoral votes. The candidate who wins the most votes in a state gets all the electoral votes of that state.
- Electoral College Calendar .
- November (1st Tuesday after the first Monday): Popular vote in each state to determine which party's electors go to the Electoral College.
3. LWV: Where We Stand: Representative Government: Voting Rights
- www.lwv.org
- A League study of the presidential electoral process culminated in a 1970 position supporting direct election of the President by popular vote as essential to representative government. The League then testified and lobbied for legislation to amend the Constitution to replace the electoral college with direct election of the President, including provisions for a national runoff election in the event no candidates (President or Vice-President) received 40 percent of the vote. ... In 1997, the LWVUS again called for abolition of the electoral college and for direct election of the President and Vice-President in testimony before the House Subcommittee on the Constitution. ...
- The League believes strongly that the electoral college should be abolished; reform of the electoral college should only be considered as a last resort. If undertaken, such reform should include: allocating electoral votes proportionally to the popular vote within each state and the District of Columbia; abolishing the office of elector; or amending the U. ...
- The League has supported national voting qualifications and procedures for presidential elections to ensure equity for voters from all states and to facilitate the electoral process. ...
- The League of Women Voters believes, therefore, that the electoral college should be abolished. ...
4. Elections PEI: Home Page
- www.gov.pe.ca
- HOMEPROVINCIALGuide to Elections Districts Find Your District Current Members Legislation Historical CEO Reports Voter Turnout Electoral Reform Candidates Results Premiers Returning Officers Women .
- REFERENCE MATERIALCharter of Rights Elections Offices Court Decisions Other Provinces' Electoral Reports .
- Chief Electoral Officer.
- Deputy Chief Electoral Officer.
- Commission on Prince Edward Island's Electoral Future.
- Greg Deighan, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and Chair of the Standing Committee on Legislative Management, announced appointments to the Commission on Prince Edward Island's Electoral Future.
- Our newest project is a 36 page booklet entitled The Prince Edward Island School Election Tool Kit 676K Acrobat file which is designed to assist teachers and students who wish to learn about the Prince Edward Island electoral process.
- Electoral Boundaries Commission.
- For additional information, consult the Electoral Boundaries Commission website.
- Report of the Chief Electoral Officer.
- Electoral Reform Commission.
- Justice Norman Carruthers Electoral Reform Commission Report December 18, 2003 .
- Justice Norman Carruthers Discussion paper on Prince Edward Island Electoral Reform .
- Electoral Reform on Prince Edward Island A Discussion paper - J. ...
5. 2004 Electoral Vote Animation
- electoral-vote.caida.org
- 2004 Electoral Vote Animation Traditional US Map - All (May 24, 2004 - present) .
- electoral-vote. ...
- After one of my friends lamented the lack of an animated view of the changes in electoral votes over time, I created this animation from the images available at http://www. electoral-vote. ... This tiny hack is intended only as a supplement to the electoral-vote. ...
- Sat Aug 28 17:26:32 PDT 2004: I've added vertical bars showing the number of electoral votes held by each candidate to each frame of the animation. ... Some folks have been confused, so I also want to clarify that each colored US map with the number of electoral votes in each state comes from the http://www. electoral-vote. ... I take the images, add some text (most notably the date) and the vertical bars showing the number of electoral votes, and then create the animation. ... This site is intended only as a new way to view trends in the electoral-vote. ...
- The cartogram images (scaled by available electoral votes) also come from the http://www. electoral-vote. ... Thanks again to the electoral-vote. ...
6. Presidential Elections and the Electoral College: U.S. Congressional Documents
- memory.loc.gov
- --the Electoral Commission holding a secret session by candle-light, on the Louisiana question, February 16. ...
- and the Electoral College.
- Electoral Commission of 1877.
- A wide variety of materials on presidential elections and the electoral college may be found in A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation. ...
- Electoral Votes .
- Additional Library of Congress online resources related to presidential elections and the electoral college include the following Today in History Web pages: .
- He lost the electoral college vote to William McKinley despite his diligent campaigning.
- Students and researchers on the subject of the presidential elections and the electoral college may find it useful to consult the Law Library of Congress Research Guide to Election Resources, a resource guide to both electronic and printed materials on the subject. ...
- The National Archives and Records Administration has created the Electoral College Web Site. ...
- The Committee on House Administration of the United States House of Representatives has published a Congressional Research Service memorandum Overview of Electoral College Procedure and the Role of Congress. ...
- Harper's Weekly was a leading weekly newspaper and HarpWeek offers an educational Web site on the Electoral College Controversy of 1876-1877. ...
7. ACT Electoral Commission - Home Page
- www.elections.act.gov.au
- Our mission is to provide the ACT community with high quality electoral services that ensure fair and open elections and referendums.
- Technical problems to the ACT Electoral Commission's webmaster at elections@act. ...
8. PDBA-Electoral Systems
- www.georgetown.edu
- Electoral Systems.
- Electoral Results.
- Electoral Laws.
- This section contains electoral laws for the countries of the Americas. ...
- Electoral Organizations.
- This section contains bibliographical information about electoral systems in the Americas, in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish. ...
- National Electoral Institutes.
- This section contains contact information for all the national electoral institutes in the hemisphere as well as links to the official websites where available. ...
9. How the Electoral College Works
- www.fec.gov
- How the Electoral College Works.
- The current workings of the Electoral College are the result of both design and experience. ...
- The political parties (or independent candidates) in each State submit to the State's chief election official a list of individuals pledged to their candidate for president and equal in number to the State's electoral vote. ...
- On the Monday following the second Wednesday of December (as established in federal law) each State's Electors meet in their respective State capitals and cast their electoral votes-one for president and one for vice president. ...
- The electoral votes are then sealed and transmitted from each State to the President of the Senate who, on the following January 6, opens and reads them before both houses of the Congress. ...
- The candidate for president with the most electoral votes, provided that it is an absolute majority (one over half of the total), is declared president. Similarly, the vice presidential candidate with the absolute majority of electoral votes is declared vice president. ...
- In the event no one obtains an absolute majority of electoral votes for president, the U. ...
- Similarly, further details on the history and current functioning of the Electoral College are available in the second edition of Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U. ...
10. What is the Electoral College
- www.votescount.com
- What is the Electoral college???.
- Origins of the Electoral College.
- In the Electoral College system the states assume the role of a centurial group and the number of votes that they are entitled to depend on the size of the states Congressional delegation. ...
- Throughout its history, the Electoral College has gone through only two major changes. In the first design of the Electoral College:.
- The candidate with the most electoral votes became president and the candidate who received the next greatest number of electoral votes became vice president. ...
- This system was meant to work in a system without political parties and national campaigns and the introduction of which forced a couple features of the Electoral College to change.
- The second design of the Electoral College came about in the presidential election of 1800 when the Electors of the Democratic-Republican Party gave Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr an equal number of electoral votes. ... The 12th Amendment also states that if no one receives an absolute majority of electoral votes for president the House of Representatives will cast the deciding vote from the top three candidates.
- Pros and Cons of the Electoral College.
- In its over 200 year history, the electoral college has received its share of criticism and praise. The following is a list of the most frequently made comments of the Electoral College. ...
- Strengthens the status of minority groups- the votes of small minorities within a state may make the difference between winning all of a states electoral votes or none of them. ...
- The Electoral College may depress voter turnout- because each state is only entitled to so many electoral votes regardless of voter turnout, there is no incentive for states to encourage voter participation .
- How many electoral votes does each state have?.
- The Electoral College Today.
11. ElectionReform.org - Electoral College Close Calls and Failures
- www.electionreform.org
- Electoral College Reform.
- Electoral College Close Calls and Failures.
- Over the course of the history of the Electoral College, there have been several incidents that question the success of the current formulation of the Electoral College. The following provides a basic overview of the historical pitfalls of the Electoral College. ...
- In the 2000 election, Democratic Presidential candidate Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the vote of the Electoral College after a partial recount and legal decisions made by the Supreme Court. This election has brought the current failures of the Electoral College into greater public attention.
- The 1992 election was unique in recent history because it witnessed 19% of the vote going to a candidate who received 0% of the Electoral College votes. ... Due to the current formation of the Electoral College, however, he was unable to receive even one single Electoral vote.
- 8%) but lost the Electoral College to Benjamin Harrison. (Harrison received 233 electoral votes and Cleveland received 168. ... In this case, the Electoral College prevented strong opinions in one region from deciding the outcome of the Presidential election.
- The electoral votes were close, however, and 20 electoral votes were contested, including the 4 Florida electors, the 8 Louisiana electors, the 7 South Carolina electors and 1 of the 3 Oregon electors. With these 20 electoral votes disputed, no candidate received a majority of votes, although Tilden only needed 1 vote to win and Hayes needed all 20. When all the states sent both slates of electors, the Congress passed a special rule to set up an Electoral Commission to make a decision on the disputed electors in each of the states. ... The Democratic threat of a filibuster to prevent the resumption of the counting of electoral votes was not implemented after a political deal that would have Hayes withdraw federal troops from the South and end reconstruction.
- In the election of 1824, the race for President was thrown into the House of Representatives when none of the four candidates (all from the Democratic-Republican Party) received a majority of the electoral votes. Of the candidates running, Andrew Jackson received 99 electoral votes, John Quincy Adams received 84 electoral votes, William H Crawford received 41 electoral votes and Henry Clay received 37. ... In an effort to overwhelm Jackson's electoral lead, Adams sought to gain the support of Clay. ...
12. Elections: All About the Electoral College
- www.state.ma.us
- Electoral College History.
- Electoral College Proceedings.
- Electoral Votes by State.
- Selected Readings on the Electoral College.
- Electoral College .
- The Electoral College in Massachusetts .
- How the Electoral College Works.
- How the Electoral College Works (This link leads to a page maintained by the Federal Election Commission) .
- Additional history about the Electoral College (PDF, 264k).
- Electoral College Proceedings.
- The candidates receiving an absolute majority (270) of the electoral votes are declared President and Vice-President of the United States.
- Electoral Votes by State.
- Distribution of Electoral Votes (This link leads to a page maintained by the Federal Election Commission).
- Selected Readings on the Electoral College.
- Proposals for Revision of the Electoral College System. ...
- The Politics of Electoral College Reform. ...
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