GOV 111 Fall 2023 Class Assignment #3-Brief

NAME: Courtney Slee 1. Each GOV 111 student is expected to explain how the number of electoral votes for each U.S. state is determined. State the number of electoral votes that a winning U.S. presidential candidate needs to receive. Briefly summarize how a U.S. presidential election is supposed to be resolved, if a U.S. presidential candidate does NOT receive the number of electoral votes that is needed to win the U.S. presidency. Which chamber of the U.S. Congress will determine the winner of a disputed U.S. presidential election , how the votes in that chamber of the U.S. Congress will be distributed, AND how many votes a U.S. presidential candidate needs to receive in that chamber of the U.S. Congress to win a disputed U.S. presidential election. - The electoral votes are equal to our state’s representation within congress. Two senate seats and the number of congressional districts in said state help determine the electoral votes. A winning presidential candidate needs 270 electoral votes to win. In a case of both candidates reaching only 269 electoral votes then a tie and or a third party collected electoral votes. In this case the presidential election is then decided in the house of representatives when this happens each of the state’s delegation gets to cast one vote for president. They will continue doing this until one of the candidates has the support of at least 26 of the states. 2. State the TWO ways or methods that are currently used by U.S. state governments to award their electoral votes. Two of the methods currently used by the U.S state government is winner takes all and the district system. Winner takes all is in 48 out of the 50 states and the district of Columbia. It means that when a candidate who is running for president wins a state’s popular vote then that party’s entire slate of election is selected. Florida has 30 votes, if the republican party candidate were to receive the states popular vote, then those 30 electors nominated by the republican’s party would then gather to cast their votes. The district system us only used in 2 out of the 50 states. Those states are Maine and Nebraska. One electoral vote is awarded to a presidential candidate who wins the popular vote in each of the congressional districts, the remaining two votes are awarded to the candidate receiving the most votes statewide. 3. briefly summarize only TWO proposals to reform how the Electoral College awards its electoral votes . States could award two of their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. The rest will go to the winner of that state. Meaning that it would and could help prevent the popular vote loser winning the U.S presidential election. The second proposals is to award two electoral college votes from each state to the winner of the national popular vote. The rest would be awarded to the remaining electors to the winner of each congressional district. 1