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Bookmark or Share- What is the Electoral College? | National ArchivesWhen you vote for a Presidential candidate you are actually voting for your candidate's preferred electors. Learn more about voting for the electors. Most States have a “winner-take-all” system that awards all electors to the Presidential candidate who wins the State's popular vote.
- Electoral College - Definition, Vote, Constitution | HISTORYThe Electoral College, devised during the Constitutional Convention of 1787, is a voting system in which electors represent a particular presidential candidate.
- Election - Representation, Voter Choice, AccountabilityIn practice, legislative electoral systems can be classified into three broad categories: plurality and majority systems (collectively known as majoritarian systems); proportional systems; and hybrid, or semiproportional, systems.
- Electoral system | Voting Rights, Representation & Ballot Accesselectoral system, Method and rules of counting votes to determine the outcome of elections. Winners may be determined by a plurality, a majority (more than 50% of the vote), an extraordinary majority (a percentage of the vote greater than 50%), or unanimity. Candidates for public office may be elected directly or indirectly.
- Elections in the United States - WikipediaVoting laws and procedures between the states vary as a consequence of the decentralized system, including those pertaining to provisional ballots, postal voting, voter IDs, voter registration, voting machines and vote counting, felony disenfranchisement, and election recounts.
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