Electoral College Response

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1. it was founded because they wanted to create a compromise between voting in congress for the election of the President and election of the President by a the most votes by citizens.

2. Every state has a number of electoral votes equal to its number of Senators and its number of members in the House of Representatives

        2a. Kansas gets 6 votes

        2b. California, 55

3. The electors are picked by the candidate’s political party

4. No they can't vote

5. Because they would have to pass an amendment in the constitution if they want to change the system

6. the house of representatives will elect the president from the 3 candidates that got the most votes.

7. The electoral vote determines the winner , not the citizen vote, so the winner of the citizen votes doesn't become president unless they are the winner of the electoral vote.

8. No there is no law saying that they have to

9. 270 electoral votes

10. first Monday after the second Wednesday in December

11. Winner take all method and district method

12. They are an electoral college member who didn't vote the president candidate they pledged to vote for.

13. the winner take all system is when the winner of the popular vote in a given state receives every electoral vote. District is when the winner of the popular vote in each district only wins that districts electoral vote.

14. 12 amendment.

15. Pros- Gives more power to the states and it helps make it easier to keep it at a two party system

       Cons-  The candidate that most people want to win may not win and small states get more power

16. the first problem is the candidate who wins the most votes may not win the presidency. The second problem is that every vote doesn't count equally. the last problem is that our country is divided into battleground states and flyover states because of the winner takes all method.