ORLANDO, Fla. - The Electoral College has been used, since the United States was founded, to elect the nation's president.

A key issue to understand about Electoral College is "it proportionately favors smaller states over larger states," says Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school a U.C. Berkley. It would take ...

In 1824, the U.S. House of Representatives had to vote on a presidential candidate after the four contenders split the electoral college vote. The likelihood of this happening in modern day ...

In America, the winner of the presidential election is not determined by a national vote but through a system called the Electoral College, which gives “electoral votes” to all 50 states and ...

David Adkins, local historian and former history instructor at Roane State Community College, will speak on the U.S.

This is in wake of the allegations of manipulation of electoral rolls during the recently ... being included in the voters’ list. The EC has explained that duplication may have arisen because ...

And the national vote tally is irrelevant to picking a president; what matters is the selection of representatives from each state to the Electoral College. Each state chooses electors (their ...

That system, the Electoral College, balances the competing interests of large states with those of smaller states. By allocating electors based on a state’s cumulative representation in the ...

A more difficult problem was how to structure the voting within the Electoral College. During the debates at the Constitutional Convention, some delegates argued that the diversity and dispersal ...