Electoral College- this indirect election consists 538 electors who votes officially our president and vice president. the number of electors is equal to the total voting membership in Congress. The electors gets casts from the voters, which are pledged to presidental and vice presidental canidates. Each elector casts one vote for president and one vote for vice president.
The Constitutional Convention in 1787 used the Virginia Plan for a basis of discussion. The Virgina Plan also called for the Congress to elect the president and then the Electoral College was born.
The negatives about it are that critics argued that the Electoral College is inherently undemocratic and gives swing states disproportionate in electing the President and VP. Back when the South was full of slavery it was difficlut for the North to get consensus a proposal give nthe prevalence to the South and the right of suffrage was more diffusive in the North than the South.
When its Election Day the electors do a lot of busy things. When it is time for balloting, the electors choose one or two people. Each elector submits a written ballot with the name of the canidate running for president. The electors write the name of the canidate on a blank card and the tellers count the ballots and announce the final result. The electoral vote and popular vote and different in some ways. The popular vote is the popularity the canidates get in each states and the electoral vote is when all the electors from Congress make the final results and there you go you get your P.O.D.U.S. (President of the United States).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_College_(United_States)
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