POL 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Interstate Compact, Theodore Roosevelt
23 Oct 2018
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Doesn"t matter if there is more popular votes, if there is a majority then all the. Happened less than 1% of time in american history. Faithless electors- a person who does not vote for the candidate they were told to. If you"re not associated with a party, it"s a much bigger effort to run. Electors vote for president, and then separately for vice president. Presiding officer counts them and see who has majority. Majority is 270 or more votes today. Election where one person got the popular vote, but the other person got elected by electoral vote. States do winner take all with electors electors go to that candidate. Hillary clinton won popular vote by 3 million, but trump won electoral vote. Interstate compact- national popular vote nationwide and will give all electors to that person. 700 amendments to change electoral vote to popular vote, none of them passed through congress.
