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It has nothing to do with odd or even numbers in the electoral college. While we have two dominant political parties, presidential electors are generally not limited to voting only for the major party candidates (in 2016, for example, 7 electors voted for one of 5 different people other than Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton). Some states have banned "faithless electors", but far from all. Even with an odd number, therefore, it's possible for a tie or for a candidate to have the plurality of votes but not a majority.
The founders also didn't decree an even number of electors. Originally, there were 69 electors. That number has increased over time as the US added states and increased in population. The number of electors was set as the total number of members of Congress. Since there are 2 Senators per state, odd vs. even is determined by the House. For the vast majority of our history, that number has been odd (it's currently 435). What gave us our current even number of electors (538) is the 23rd Amendment, passed in 1961. That Amendment gave Washington, DC 3 Presidential electors even though it is not a state and has no voting members of Congress.
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The number of electoral votes is not specified in the Constitution. The Constitution says that it is the number of senators plus the number of representatives plus the number of senators the capital district would have if it were a state, plus the smaller of the number of representatives the capital district would have if it were a state or the number of representatives from the smallest state.
The number of senators per state is set by the Constitution at two.
The number of states is set indirectly by Congress and the several states.
The total number of representatives is set by Congress.
In the event that nobody receives a majority of electoral votes, Congress cannot vote for just anyone. The House can only choose between the top three recipients of electoral votes for President, and the Senate can only choose between the top two recipients of electoral votes for Vice President.
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What seems daft is that even if a state has say 7 seats, all will go to one party, so the votes could be split 49/51 in a state and instead of say a 3/4 split it would be a 0/7 split.
So overall in all but, what is it 7 swing states, your vote is rather pointless.
That is like saying in the UK that a county can only be one party, yet in my county we have Tory, Labour, and Green, and I think there is an independent as well for the 5 seats. Still not PR, but it does allow for different areas to reflect differing needs.
If a county were to have just one party for all seats, then the make up of parliament would be very different.
So, not sure the electoral college is fair for the people of the USA, as that is like saying in Europe each country can only send one party to the European Parliament, yet we know that each country sends several EPMs and they can come from different parties depending on the region of the country they come from. So the last time the UK voted EMPs came from at least 3 or 4 different parties. How the European Parliament would be different if each country could just send one political party. That is how crazy the Electoral College in the USA is, as each state is as bug or bigger tha European Countries.
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The founders imagined multiple regional candidates running or exploring the idea of running. They imagined this would lead to 1 of 2 scenarios: unlikely candidates drop out, rallying around an obvious winner. Or multiple candidates stay in the race, and without a clear electoral college victory, the vote goes to the House of Representatives. The entire house would have just been subject to an election themselves and would hopefully reflect the will of their constituents.
They did not write a single sentence about a candidate losing a popular election but winning based on the mechanics of the electoral college.
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@WhiteSleevedStu
2 weeks ago
I thought it went to penalties
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