POL 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Twelfth Amendment To The United States Constitution
21 Aug 2016
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Lecture 3 notes: the presidential election: part i institutional set-up. Duverger"s law holds that plurality-rule elections (such as but not limited to first past the post) structured within single-member districts tend to favor two-party systems and that the double ballot majority system and proportional representation tend to favor multi-partism. Delegates considered a number of options (such as selection by legislature, and popular. If there is no majority in the electoral college then the house of representatives decide. Each state is given electoral college votes equal to the number of representatives and senators that state possesses. No state has fewer than 3 votes (because each state has 2 senators and at least 1 representative no matter how small it is. ) To win the presidential election a candidate must receive a majority of the votes in the electoral. It is possible for a candidate who wins the popular vote to lose the presidential election.
