POL 201 Lecture : halloween notes.docx

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 201
• Professor: Sylvia Thompson

Document Summary

At the same time, they will tell us who won the presidency on the night of the election: electors ballots will not be counted until 2 months after we vote, they are predicting what the electoral vote will be based on the popular vote, whoever has more popular vote in a state, gets all of the electoral votes for the state, the electors are chosen by the candidates, for if they win the popular vote then they get all of the state"s electors. 270+ to be vice president: faithless elector= did not vote who they were told to vote for, because candidate dies, because they want to get a point across (protest votes); leave blank ballots or switch pres. /vice ballots, someone would never do this if they knew it would make the person they were tied to, lose the election, states have a law to bind the electors.