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The Constitution mandates that House Members vote as a state delegation and that the winner must obtain a simple majority of the states. The House deadlocked at eight states for Jefferson, six for Burr, and two tied. After six days of debate and 36 ballots, Jefferson won 10 state delegations in the House when the Burr supporters in the two tied states Vermont and Maryland filed blank ballots rather than support Jefferson.
After the experiences of the and elections, Congress passed, and the states ratified, the 12th Amendment to the Constitution. Added in time for the election, the amendment stipulated that the electors would now cast two votes: one for President and the other for Vice President.
While states varied in how they selected presidential electors through the 19th century, electors today are uniformly popularly elected rather than appointed and pledged to support a given candidate.
Since the 12th Amendment, one other presidential election has come to the House. In , Andrew Jackson of Tennessee won a plurality of the national popular vote and 99 votes in the Electoral College—32 short of a majority. Speaker of the House Henry Clay had 37 and expected to use his influence in the House to win election.
But the 12th Amendment required the House to consider only the top-three vote-getters when no one commands an overall majority. The House chose Adams over Jackson. Was there ever witnessed such a bare faced corruption in any country before? The contested presidential election between Republican Rutherford B. In the final two weeks before election day, it is these swing states that will receive all the attention from candidates.
So a presidential candidate is not aiming to win the popular vote across the country. They are not aiming to win all 50 states although several have come close, such as Richard Nixon in , and Ronald Reagan in , each of whom won 49 states.
A presidential candidate is aiming to win a majority of the Electoral College, in whatever shape that takes. When they devised the Constitution, the founding fathers did not believe that voters could be trusted to make the correct decision when voting. So the electoral college was conceived as a fail-safe. At the time, no voter in the electoral college was required to vote according to the result on election day. Festival of Social Science — Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire. The meeting of the electors takes place on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December after the general election.
The electors meet in their respective States, where they cast their votes for President and Vice President on separate ballots. Members of the House and Senate meet in the House Chamber to conduct the official count of electoral votes. The Vice President, as President of the Senate, presides over the count and announces the results of the vote. The President-elect takes the oath of office and is sworn in as President of the United States on January 20th in the year following the general election.
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