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.

29 270 to win projection. 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. 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. In pineville nc writes.

The number of electors for a state is based upon the voting membership of that state in congress i e. A candidate must. Not only a two to one margin but enough votes to put uncle joe in the oval office. Most states award all of their electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote in the state.

Census could transform the electoral map going forward. 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. 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. While it will not affect the 2020 state by state electoral college vote the results of the 2020 u s.

The number of representatives in the house plus the number of senators. Results of the 2016 presidential election. The electoral votes are deteremined based on the 2010 us census. 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.

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. House of representatives. 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. However once a vote is banked it generally stays there even if biden makes a gaffe later there is an october surprise or the voter has a change of mind.