CE.5F Electoral College Lesson #1

CE.5F Electoral College Lesson #1

Who REALLY elects the president and vice president?

Poll

What is the Electoral College?

• A place where citizens can learn about the election process

• A selected group of citizens who advice the president on elections

• The system used to elect the president and vice president of the United States

The Process for the Electoral College

•  Each political party chooses citizens to be their of electors

• After the popular vote, the electors cast their official votes.

• Most states have a “winner-take-all” system

•  Candidates need 270 electoral votes to win

What do you remember?

The next few slides will be questions about the Electoral College.

Multiple Choice

The Electoral College is used to elect which government officeholders?

• Members in the House of Representatives

• Governor and Lieutenant governor

• president and vice president

Multiple Choice

How many electoral votes must a presidential candidate have to win and election?

• 280

• 270

• 346

Multiple Choice

What determines how many electoral votes does each state have?

• It is based on the state's total number of representatives in Congress

• They only based on population so the number of representatives in the House of Representatives

• BAsed only on the number of senators a state has which is 2 and that makes it fair

Multiple Select

What does winner-take all mean in a presidential election?

• the state's winner of the popular vote gets all of the electoral votes for that state

• the state's winner will then move on to the runoff election