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It specifies how many electors each state is entitled to have.
Since 1964, there have been 538 electors in each presidential election.
Well, the number of electors is equal to the total voting membership of the United States Congress.
435 representatives, plus 100 senators, and 3 electors from the District of Columbia.
Essentially, the Democratic candidate and Republican candidate are each trying to add up the electors in every state so that they surpass 270 electoral votes, or just over half the 538 votes, and win the presidency.
Each state receives a particular number of electors based on population size.
He seems to consider it below him to come and discuss things with the public, the electors of the county in a public meeting.
Without it, unless electors suddenly to turn into altruists of a kind never before seen on a large scale, democracy could not function.
Electors chose only a representative for the House of Commons, and the majority party then appointed the prime minister.
Due to the Electoral College, voters cast their ballots not for a candidate but for a slate of electors – party activists, including friends and allies of the contender – who will support their choice.
The role of the electors is a brief formality; they meet in their state capitol and cast the vote.
Today, 800 electors handpicked by the mainland Chinese government -- who mostly represent big business -- choose Hong Kong's Chief Executive.
French electors did not vote for a dream.
His goal was to expose the fallacious arguments used to block reforms like the abolition of “rotten boroughs” – electorates with so few electors that a powerful lord or landowner could effectively select the member of parliament, while newer cities like Manchester remained unrepresented.
Indeed, in the 1995 parliamentary elections 14.9% of electors with scientific degrees did not vote – twice as many as among electors with unfinished secondary education (7.5%).
In 1774 Edmund Burke, who had just been elected to Parliament for Bristol, told his electors that, while their wishes would have great weight with him, and their opinions would have his high respect, he would not sacrifice to them his unbiased opinion, mature judgment, or enlightened conscience.
Yet, owing to America’s Electoral College system, which allocates more electors per person to states with smaller populations, the outcome of this election was much closer than the popular vote would suggest.
With public hearings in each region of the UK, supported by Parliament’s Select Committees, a representative sample of electors should consider the facts, not least the issues that dominated the referendum debate: who controls the UK’s borders and laws.
While district councils have little power, they select some of the 1,200 electors who choose Hong Kong’s chief executive.
We were told that ballots would not be counted, voting machines would be hacked, state legislatures would order electors to defy the will of the people, armed thugs would intimidate voters, and riots would erupt – with the police taking the side of the “law and order” president.
The traditional British approach to democracy was enshrined in Edmund Burke’s 1774 “Speech to the Electors of Bristol.”
This decisive manoeuvre was observed by some of the electors, who lost no time in presenting their compliments to Baron de Tolly.
On one side the journalists, the electors, public opinion; in a word, youth and all those who admire it.
The GAZETTE warned the electors of Eatanswill that the eyes not only of England, but of the whole civilised world, were upon them; and the INDEPENDENT imperatively demanded to know, whether the constituency of Eatanswill were the grand fellows they had always taken them for, or base and servile tools, undeserving alike of the name of Englishmen and the blessings of freedom.
'The night afore the last day o' the last election here, the opposite party bribed the barmaid at the Town Arms, to hocus the brandy-and-water of fourteen unpolled electors as was a-stoppin' in the house.''What do you mean by "hocussing" brandy-and-water?' inquired Mr. Pickwick.
There were electors on horseback and electors afoot.
Brother electors of the borough of Eatanswill.
The friends of Horatio Fizkin, Esquire, having had their innings, a little choleric, pink-faced man stood forward to propose another fit and proper person to represent the electors of Eatanswill in Parliament; and very swimmingly the pink-faced gentleman would have got on, if he had not been rather too choleric to entertain a sufficient perception of the fun of the crowd.
Then Horatio Fizkin, Esquire, of Fizkin Lodge, near Eatanswill, presented himself for the purpose of addressing the electors; which he no sooner did, than the band employed by the Honourable Samuel Slumkey, commenced performing with a power to which their strength in the morning was a trifle; in return for which, the Buff crowd belaboured the heads and shoulders of the Blue crowd; on which the Blue crowd endeavoured to dispossess themselves of their very unpleasant neighbours the Buff crowd; and a scene of struggling, and pushing, and fighting, succeeded, to which we can no more do justice than the mayor could, although he issued imperative orders to twelve constables to seize the ringleaders, who might amount in number to two hundred and fifty, or thereabouts.
The speeches of the two candidates, though differing in every other respect, afforded a beautiful tribute to the merit and high worth of the electors of Eatanswill.