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| What was peculiar about the 2000 Presidential election? | Al Gore won the popular vote and lost the Electoral College vote |
| Why is the President decided by Electoral College? | purely popular election was too reckless, while others objected to giving Congress the power to select the president |
| Where in the Constitution is the Electoral College described? | Article II, section 1 |
| How are the number of electors for each state decided? | Each state has a number of electors equal to the number of its U.S. senators (2 in each state) plus the number of its U.S. representatives, which varies according to the state's population |
| What other location besides the 50 states has electors? | Washington D.C. |
| When are the electors’ votes cast? | Monday the Second Wednesday in December |
| When are the votes counted? Where are they counted? | January 6th |
| When does the President take office? | January 20th |
| Name four elections where the winner has received fewer popular votes than their opponent, but still won the election. | 1824: John Quincy Adams, the son of former President John Adams, received more than 38,000 fewer votes than Andrew Jackson, but neither candidate won a majority of the Electoral College. Adams was awarded the presidency when the election was thrown to the House of Representatives. |
| If no candidate receives more than 270 Electoral College votes, who decides the winner, and what gives them the right to? | The House of Representatives, the 12th Amendment |
| Name two elections where the House of Representatives decided the winner. | 1801: Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, both Democrat-Republicans, received the same number of electoral votes, despite the fact that Burr was running as a vice presidential candidate, not for the presidency. Following 36 successive votes in the House, Jefferson was finally elected president. |
| Do you believe the Electoral College is appropriate and should be left alone, or is it out-dated and should be changed? Why? | yes, because it helps decide the whos President not the people |
