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The Electoral College, Explained for Kids. by Emily Tisch Sussman. 5th Grade Lexile: 990. Font Size. Untitled by Clay Banks is licensed under CC0. The Electoral College isn’t an actual. 1. school. [1] The Electoral College sounds like a grown-up school your older sibling or babysitter goes to when they finish high school, but that isn’t the ...
Nov 8, 2016 · Your vote doesn't exactly decide who becomes president. For that, we turn to the Electoral College. Here's how it works.Produced by: MADISON MILLSRead the st...
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Nov 6, 2012 · What is the Electoral College? The Electoral College is made up of 538 electors who cast votes to decide the President and Vice-President of the United States. When voters go to the polls on Tuesday, they will be choosing which candidate receives their state's electors. The candidate who receives a majority of electoral votes (270) wins the ...
Nov 4, 2008 · Mental Floss: In this situation, each state's Congressmen get together and pick a candidate among the top three vote getters in the Electoral College balloting. Each state's delegation then casts ...
Jul 15, 2019 · The Electoral College was never intended to be the “perfect” system for picking the president, says George Edwards III, emeritus political science professor at Texas A&M University.
Take the Electoral College, for instance. Every four years, on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November, millions of U.S. citizens go to local voting booths to cast a vote for the next president and vice president of their country. Their votes are recorded and counted, and the winner is declared — unless the majority of Electoral ...
Aug 4, 2022 · Harper, Explained. Moore v. Harper, Explained. The debunked “independent state legislature theory” is on the Supreme Court’s docket, with potentially disastrous consequences. Last Updated: June 27, 2023. Published: August 4, 2022. UPDATE: On June 27, 2023, the Supreme Court rejected the “independent state legislature theory” in Moore v.
