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Primaries & Caucuses
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National Convention
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General Election
- The voters are required to vote on a ballot where they select the candidate of their choice.
- The presidential ballot is a vote “for the electors of a candidate” meaning the voter is not voting for the candidate, but endorsing a slate of electors pledged to vote for a specific presidential and vice presidential candidate.
- Federal law specify that all electors must be selected on the same day, which is “the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November,” i.e., a Tuesday no earlier than November 2 and no later than November 8.
- States allow for Absentee voting and Mail voting.
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Electoral College
- Electoral College is a body of electors established by the United States Constitution, which forms every four years for the sole purpose of electing the president and vice president of the United States.
- The Electoral College consists of 538 electors, and an absolute majority of at least 270 electoral votes is required to win the election.
Electoral college map
Electoral College
- Most state laws establish a winner-take-all system, wherein the ticket that wins a plurality of votes wins all of that state’s allocated electoral votes.
- Each state’s winning slate of electors then meets at their respective state’s capital on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December to cast their electoral votes on separate ballots for president and vice president.
- Note: Electoral College members can vote for anyone under the U.S. Constitution.
- What if someone cross votes?
- The electors who do not cast their electoral votes for the person for whom they have pledged to vote are regarded as faithless voters.
- 32 states have laws against faithless electors, some can even replace them.
- The Supreme Court has ruled unanimously in the case Chiafalo v. Washington in 2020 that the constitution does not prevent states from penalizing or replacing faithless electors.
What if there is a tie?
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