Your Grade______
(Read “Electing the President” materials)
1) What is:
A) The purpose and / or relevance (if any) of The States’ popular vote
The purpose of the vote is to select an electoral vote
B) Aside from providing a “mandate” to govern, what is the purpose and / or relevance (if any) of The National popular vote
2) Relating to the Presidential election and awarding state’s electoral votes:
A)
Fully explain
how electoral votes are awarded under “
proportional representation”
and how it is possible for a candidate who wins more popular votes statewide to end up with less electoral votes
Instead of winner take all, states like Nebraska and main have proportional representation which a state could decide to give an electoral votes based on the vote on each congressional district and award two additional electoral votes based on the overall states’ popular vote. It is possible for a candidate lose even though he had more populr vote against a candidate who has a majority of the electoral votes.
C)
Fully explain
how electoral votes are awarded under a “winner takes all system” and
how it is possible for a candidate to win 100% of the electoral votes while winning less than half of the state’s popular vote
If a candidate wins most of state popular vote he wins all the electoral votes no matter how close the vote are.. it is possible for a candidate to win less popular vote but can have all the electoral votes candidate who wins 35% of the vote wins 100% of the 55 electoral votes.
3) Explain the outcome of an election under the following scenarios:
The Democrat and Republican candidates split the popular vote in the 53 congressional districts (D) 27 and (R) 26. However, the Republican won more popular votes statewide by one vote!
A) How many electoral votes would each candidate win statewide under the current “
Winner Take All”
formula? (D) ____53______ (R) ____0______
B) How many electoral votes would each candidate win if California had a “
Proportional Representation”
system? (D) __________ (R) __________
4) Based on the national Electoral College vote what is the
minimum number of states
a candidate would need to win in order to win the Presidential election?
Questions 5-10 are based upon the following imaginary "National" election results
POPULAR VOTE CANDIDATE #5( E/V ) #6 (H/R VOTE)
More Trump/Pence (R) ( ) ( )
Less Clinton/Biden (D) ( ) ( )
Least 3rd Party ( ) ( )
5)
Without copying the example provided in the reading
, fill in any electoral votes (E/V) above that would force a vote in the House of Representatives
6)
Without copying the example provided in the reading
, fill in a House vote (H/R Vote) above that may allow for a vice-presidential candidate to get elected.
7) (
Assume no candidate wins a majority of the national electoral vote
)
If a state has 20 House of Representatives
give an example
of a vote
taken by these 20 House of Representatives that would leave their state without a vote:
8)
Aside from states going without a vote because a tie in their House vote and representatives voting against their own party
, explain how else it may be possible for the minority party (republican or democrat) to have an advantage if the Presidential election vote goes to the House of Representatives.
9) From the election Example above (#s 5 and 6)
A) Provide the
actual
names of the two candidates that the Senate would choose from to become "Acting" President?
( ) and ( )
From the election Example above (#s 5 and 6)
B) Provide the
actual
Name of the current person who would vote to break a tie-vote in the Senate?
( ) And
actual
name of the likely person he would vote for ( )
10) Relating to the Presidential election
, explain
everything
that needs to happen in order for the Speaker of the House of Representatives to become President?