Sentence examples for elector number from inspiring English sources

"It makes no sense to be elector number five who comes out against Trump.

But it might make sense to be elector number 38," Lessig told Politico.

I reached my polling station in Victoria Park at about 8 30 AM this morning to be told that I wasn't on their list despite registering over two months ago and calling twice to confirm I was registered when I didn't receive my polling card and that had to go to the Town Hall and get an elector number in order to vote.

I reached my polling station in Victoria Park at about 8 30AM this morning to be told that I wasn't on their list – despite registering over two months ago and calling twice to confirm I was registered when I didn't receive my polling card – and that had to go to the Town Hall and get an elector number in order to vote.

Hamilton's highlights included discussion that although republics have been culpable for disorders in the past, advances in the "science of politics" had fostered principles that ensured that those abuses could be prevented, such as the division of powers, legislative checks and balances, an independent judiciary, and legislators that were represented by electors Numbers 7-9).

President Barack Obama won the national popular vote by 3.7 percentage points, and carried the electoral map — the number of electors from each state is based indirectly on population — 332 to 206.

The system allowed state legislatures or the voting public if the legislatures so decided to choose electors equal in number to the states' representatives and senators combined; the electors would vote for two candidates, one of whom had to be a resident of another state.

Since there are 435 members in the House and 100 Senators, plus three electors from D.C., the total number of electors is 538.

Because a national election seemed logistically impossible in the 1780s – and because the framers of the constitution worried about putting too much power directly in the hands of "We the People" – the electoral college was created, and each state was allowed to send electors (equal in number to that state's congressional delegation) to pick the president.

The legislature of each State appoints the same quantity of electors as the number of Congressmen House Representativess plus Senators) in the manner each State sees fit.

The Constitution allocates to each of the states the authority to "appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors," and the electors are, in turn, empowered to meet and to vote by ballot for the election of the president.