2012 Presidential Election

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States Electoral College Votes

Total 60 38

6:00 PM 6:30 PM

7:00 PM

Georgia 16 Indiana 11 Kentucky 8 South Carolina 9 Vermont 3 Virginia 13 North Carolina 15 Ohio 18 West Virginia 5 Alabama 9 Connecticut 7 Delaware 3 Florida 29 Illinois 20 Maine 4 Maryland 10 Massachusetts 11 Mississippi 6 Missouri 10 New Hampshire 4 New Jersey 14 Oklahoma 7 Pennsylvania 20 Rhode Island 4 Tennessee 11 Washington, DC 3 Arkansas 6 Arizona 11 Colorado 9 Kansas 6 Louisiana 8 Michigan 16 Minnesota 10 Nebraska 5 New Mexico 5 New York 29 South Dakota 3 Texas 38 Wisconsin 10 Wyoming 3 Iowa 6 Montana 3 Nevada 6 Utah 6 California 55 Hawaii 4 Idaho 4 North Dakota 3 Oregon 7 Washington 12 Alaska 3

172

7:30 PM 8:00 PM

6 153

9:00 PM 10:00 PM 12:00 AM

Total Votes

21 85 3
538
270

Majority Needed to WIN!

State

Democrat

Republican

Alabama 9 Alaska 3 Arizona 11 Arkansas 6 California 55 Colorado 9 Connecticut 7 Delaware 3 Florida 29 Georgia 16 Hawaii 4 Idaho 4 Illinois 20 Indiana 11 Iowa 6 Kansas 6 Kentucky 8 Louisiana 8 Maine 4 Maryland 10 Massachusetts 11 Michigan 16 Minnesota 10 Mississippi 6 Missouri 10 Montana 3 Nebraska 5 Nevada 6 New Hampshire 4 New Jersey 14 New Mexico 5 New York 29 North Carolina 15 North Dakota 3 Ohio 18 Oklahoma 7 Oregon 7 Pennsylvania 20 Rhode Island 4 South Carolina 9 South Dakota 3 Tennessee 11 Texas 38 Utah 6 Vermont 3 Virginia 13 Washington 12 Washington, DC 3 West Virginia 5 Wisconsin 10 Wyoming 3

Totals

The Electoral College What is it?

The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President. Your states entitled allotment of electors equals the number of members in its Congressional delegation: one for each member in the House of Representatives plus two for your Senators. Under the 23rd Amendment of the Constitution, the District of Columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the Electoral College. For this reason, in the following discussion, the word state also refers to the District of Columbia. Each candidate running for President in your state has his or her own group of electors. The electors are generally chosen by the candidates political party, but state laws vary on how the electors are selected and what their responsibilities are. The presidential election is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. You help choose your states electors when you vote for President because when you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for your candidates electors. Most states have a winner-take-all system that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate. However, Maine and Nebraska each have a variation of proportional representation. After the presidential election, your governor prepares a Certificate of Ascertainment listing all of the candidates who ran for President in your state along with the names of their respective electors. The Certificate of Ascertainment also declares the winning presidential candidate in your state and shows which electors will represent your state at the meeting of the electors in December of the election year. Your states Certificates of Ascertainments are sent to the Congress and the National Archives as part of the official records of the presidential election. The meeting of the electors takes place on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December after the presidential election. The electors meet in their respective states, where they cast their votes for President and Vice President on separate ballots. Your states electors votes are recorded on a Certificate of Vote, which is prepared at the meeting by the electors. Your states Certificates of Votes are sent to the Congress and the National Archives as part of the official records of the presidential election. Each states electoral votes are counted in a joint session of Congress on the 6th of January in the year following the meeting of the electors. Members of the House and Senate meet in the House chamber to conduct the official tally of electoral votes. The Vice President, as President of the Senate, presides over the count and announces the results of the vote. The President of the Senate then declares which persons, if any, have been elected President and Vice President of the United States. The President-Elect takes the oath of office and is sworn in as President of the United States on January 20 th in the year following the Presidential election.

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