why can we not find the name of a single person who served on the electoral college?
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The names of the persons who served on the electoral college along with a record of their votes is publically available from the United States National Archive.  See the Source link below.
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There maybe more than one person with the name but from my source have given you a page where search for the name is listed. I hope this will answer your question.
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No, but it is two late for that. I know he was pinched in 1976 in Maine, and I also know that his record in Texas is not available. He is really a piece of work isn't he. I wish more Americans would wake up to the fact that they have elected a fellon to the presidency.
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The number of electoral college voters for each state is the sum of the number of Representatives and Senators... each state has two Senators, but the number of Representatives depends upon the population of the state.\n\nThere are 435 Representatives and 100 Senators, a total of 535 Electoral Votes right there.  Washington DC also has 3 representatives (but no Senators), so there are a total of 538 electors. \n\nA candidate needs 270 electoral votes to be elected President (269 would be half of 538, so you need one more than half of 538).\n\nAs a rule, which ever candidate gets the most votes from each state gets all of the electoral votes from that state .\n\nSo it's not enough to simply get the majority of the popular vote, you have to get the marjoirty of the popular vote in enough statest to add up to 270 electoral votes.\n\nIf no candidate received 270 electoral votes, then the election would be decided by a vote of the 435 members of the House of Representatives.\n\nThe electoral college voters actually meet (in their own individual states) to vote on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December...THAT is when the President is officially "elected".
404102
Yes, they can. However, as the President is elected by electoral votes (which are determined by a state's population), all of the people residing there actually only get one vote. How's that for fair?
1023727
Apparently.  I'm pretty sure Al Gore had the popular vote in 2000 (no matter what the right has to say about it), but it was ultimately the Electoral College whose vote counted more.  Couple that with the fact that the Supreme Court was the ultimate "decider" (before the word was coined by our president), it would appear that the popular vote holds no water.
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The Electoral College was established by the founding fathers as a compromise between election of the president by Congress and election by popular vote. The people of the United States vote for the electors who then vote for the President.\n\nThis practice came into being because the founding fathers of the USA did not think the common man had enough knowledge of the candidates to have his (women could not vote back then) vote count.\n\nSo now, when we as Americans are casting our votes for the presidential candidates, we are actually casting our votes for electors, who will then cast their votes for the candidates. \n\nWhen all the electoral votes are counted, the candidate with the most votes wins. In most cases, the candidate who wins the popular vote also wins in the Electoral College. However, this has not always been the case.\n\nPresidential candidates can win the popular vote (the individual vote of each person in the country), and lose the election because they did not win the electoral vote.
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John Hanson, actually. He was elected and served from November 5,1781 to November 3,1782. The next paragraph is from AOL search engine.\n\n>> Six other presidents were elected after him - Elias Boudinot (1783), Thomas Mifflin (1784), Richard Henry Lee (1785), Nathan Gorman (1786), Arthur St. Clair (1787), and Cyrus Griffin (1788) - all prior to Washington taking office. Why don't we ever hear about the first seven Presidents of the United States? It's quite simple - The Articles of Confederation didn't work well. The individual states had too much power and nothing could be agreed upon. A new doctrine needed to be written - something we know as the Constitution. \n\nGeorge Washington was definitely not the first President of the United States. He was the first President of the United States under the Constitution we follow today. And the first seven Presidents are forgotten in history.<<
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Oh, trust me, I tried, but unfortunately individual votes don't count here as much as people think.  You see, we vote as individuals, then the electoral college gets to cast so many votes per state.  They are supposed to do it by whoever had the majority of votes, but I don't think they do all the time.  It's not actually required.  I think that it would have been an even closer race this last time if it had been by popular vote only.\n\nOf course, we probably could have picked a better Democratic candidate, but I didn't get my way with that one, either.  \n\nAnd we can't just kick out our President.  He can only be impeached, and that impeachment may or may not lead to him being removed from office.  So far, no one has managed to find anything impeachable with this president, although I'm sure it's from lack of real effort among the G.O.P.  Unfortunately, a less than 50% approval rate doesn't mean anything. :-(
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If the Electoral College fails to award a majority to a candidate, the President is elected by the Senate and the Vice President is elected by the House of Representatives.  If that happens, then theoretically ANYBODY can get to either position, whether they were candidates or not.\n\nThis hasn't happened - yet. So far, the Electoral College has always come up with a winner, though not always the same winner as the voters had in mind.
544162
One answer, President Bush.
1151002
The ballot is the card you fill out to vote for individual offices.  I think you are asking about the electoral college, which is a group of people selected to cast votes for the president based upon the way the population of a state voted.  However, not all states are required to distribute ballots in the college based on the way the state voted.  Essentially the college was first created because we couldn't let farmers and immigrants who could not read and write truly select who wins an election.  Still around for the same reason today...too many stupid people get a choice.
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In 1800, Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr tied with 73 votes each.  While the Republican Party had intended Jefferson to be the Presidential nominee and Burr to be the VP, the laws in place at the time did not differentiate between Presidential and Vice-Presidential votes, thus resulting in the tie.  Thus, the election was sent to the House of Representatives, who spent a week balloting (mostly because the Federalists voted for Burr as President, primarily to spite Jefferson).\n\nIn 1824, no candidate received a majority of the electoral votes so the House had to choose between top 3 vote getters - Andrew Jackson (99 electoral votes), John Quincy Adams (84) and William Harris Crawford (41).  Henry Clay, the Speaker of the House received 37 votes and finished 4th.  After his elimination, Clay threw his support to Adams, who was elected on the first ballot.\n\nAlso to consider: in 1876, the winner of the election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden was not officially decided officially by the House, but the electoral vote hinged on the acceptance by a Congressionally appointed committee of disputed ballots cast for Hayes in several states (all of Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina's electors, plus one in Oregon).
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Well, with our current system, your vote really doesn't count much. Especially in Presidential elections. The Electoral College is a huge disaster for MANY reasons, and has got to got. Evidence: George Bush is president.
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As far as I know there is only 1 president.  Unless you are referring to the president of the Kiwanis Club, Lions Club, etc.  And I couldnt start to count that many people.
112403
No sorry. Have you tried to google his name? You can call people in that area to find out about him, maybe.
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go through this link to find about Representative Irving L. 'Irv' Slosberg    \nhttp://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=WFL92859