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Article: Teaching about the Electoral College: David Dulio and the staff of the National Student/Parent Mock Election.(Election 2004)
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- Social Education
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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IT IS A FACT LITTLE KNOWN by many students that when citizens step into the voting booth on election day and select the name of the candidate they wish to be president, they are not actually voting for the individual whose name is on the ballot. Rather, they are choosing a set of "electors" assigned to the state in which the voter lives. These electors are the individuals who will participate in the formal election of the president of the United States.
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The U.S. Constitution assigns each state a number of "electoral votes" that equals the number of that state's members of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. (See Table 1) When ...