U.S. Electoral College

The United States Electoral College is the electoral college which chooses the President and Vice President of the United States at the conclusion of each Presidential election. The Electoral College was established by Article Two, Section One of the U.S. Constitution and meets every four years with electors from each state. The electoral process was modified in 1804 with the ratification of the 12th Amendment and again in 1961 with the ratification of the 23rd Amendment.

External links

• The Electoral College - by William C. Kimberling, Deputy Director FEC Office of Election Administration
• League of Women Voters - A web page from the League of Women Voters advocating direct election and the abolition of the electoral college
• The Electoral College Zine - A web site supporting retention of the Electoral College, including an article giving a mathematical analysis(See below)
• Electoral College: Is this a democratic way to pick a president?- Defense of the electoral college and representative democracies from a senior at Michigan's Ross School of Business
• Math Against Tyranny - an article describing MIT researcher Alan Natapoff's analysis favoring the electoral college system
• Outcomes of Presidential Elections and the House Size - The Neubauer-Zeitlin analysis shows that the winner of the 2000 presidential election was determined in 1941 when the House size was fixed at 435. Had the House size been set at 500, then Gore would have won the 2000 election.
• US presidential electoral system - A mathematical analysis of the US presidential system, showing that this system is biased toward populous states, giving a citizen of California roughly four times more power than one of Montana in the choice of the US president.
• Electoral College Vote Calculator - A tool for determining which combinations of states a candidate can win to become President.
• Origin and History - shorter version of the origin and history of the US Electoral College.

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• http://www.presidentelect.org/index.html
• http://unfutz.blogspot.com/2004/10/electoral-college-survey-1030.html
• Voting, Elections, Democracy, Republicanism, and the Electoral College Discusses voting, elections, democracy, republicanism, and the Electoral College. Includes a procedural guide to the electoral college, parts of the Constitution and constitutional amendments regarding voting and elections, and includes the original paper by Alexander Hamilton, "Federalist No. 68 - The Mode of Electing the President", which illustrates much of the founding fathers' original thinking regarding the Electoral College.
• Electoral College

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