Electoral Vote Not Siding With State

Unlike typical day to day congressional legislation each state delegation votes en bloc where each state gets one vote regardless of the number of congressional districts.

Electoral vote not siding with state.

Electoral college voters can be forced to back state popular vote winners supreme court says published mon jul 6 2020 10 14 am edt updated mon jul 6 2020 3 53 pm edt tucker higgins in tucker. This method of awarding electoral votes is commonly known as winner take all so even if a presidential candidate wins 51 percent of the popular vote in a winner take all state he is awarded 100 percent of the electoral votes. Also a voter who was planning to vote on election day might not if covid 19 is running rampant then 8 hour lines are predicted or the weather is terrible. Every four years on the first tuesday following the first monday of november voters head to the polls to elect the president of the united states the votes of the public determine electors who formally choose the president through the electoral college the number of electors a state receives is determined by the combined number of the state s members of the u s.

While it will not affect the 2020 state by state electoral college vote the results of the 2020 u s. This page lists the electoral votes for each of the 50 us states for the 2020 presidential election. The sunshine state has voted for the winner in 11 of the last 12 elections with the lone exception being a vote for george h w. The number of representatives in the house plus the number of senators.

A candidate must. This morning september 8 i noticed that if we discount the barely votes in both directions and look only at electoral totals each candidate would be awarded from likely and strongly states the total comes out as biden 270 trump 138. House of representatives. 29 270 to win projection.

Census could transform the electoral map going forward. Most states award all of their electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote in the state. The electoral votes are deteremined based on the 2010 us census. Not only a two to one margin but enough votes to put uncle joe in the oval office.

In pineville nc writes. Results of the 2016 presidential election. There are 538 total electors in the electoral college who are chosen by each state of the united states and by the district of columbia but not by other territories like puerto rico. The resulting decennial reapportionment process promises to reshape the political makeup of the house of representatives in 2022 and the electoral college for the 2024 presidential election.