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Originally Posted by RU OX Alum
Which section please? And also, what about Alaska and Maine, who split up their votes. Or do they have different electors? Sorry for all the questions.
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Article II, sections 2:
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
Note the "in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct." That means each state decides how to appoint electors. Most states have a winner-take-all system, where the electors from that state vote for whoever won the popular vote in that state.
As for Maine and Nebraska (not Alaska), they apportion their votes, I believe, by Congressional district. One elector comes from each Congressional district and votes for whoever won the popular vote their Congressional district. The remaining two electors vote for whoever won the popular vote statewide.
As for the other question, the first paragraph of the Twelfth Amendment:
The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and all persons voted for as Vice-President and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate.
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