European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 3, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Bojt Piej wont by Carl a staff writer american voters choose Between Lyndon Johnson and Barry Gold water but the next president of the United states wont really be elected until that when the 538 presidential elec tors meet at the 90 state capitals and in the District Columbia to cast official votes which will decide who is to be chief this Doest mean that votes cast on 9 dont they decide whether electors of one party or another will cast the electoral votes for each the Constitution leaves up to the states the decision How electors arc to be in Early state legis Laturco picked but since the Early 1800s the people have Hud the respond Here is a guide to the electoral col a governmental institution though criticized almost from the remains a strongly entrenched part of the system How Are the electoral votes allocated the states each state has a number of electoral totes equal to the number of its senators and California with 38 representatives and two senators has 40 electoral the District of which has no con was Given three electoral votes by the 23rd amendment to the effective in this election for the first there arc s38 making 270 a How Are electors picked before election Llo publicans and democrats As Well As minor parties in each state pick a list of candidates for electors and to represent their National the Laws of most tales provide that such candidates be chosen at a state party in other party committees pick or they Are chosen at a primary tc7ho Are the elector candidates us to rally persons who have served their party Long and do electors have to pledge support to the National ticket in 14 including All the Large the Laws imply Siut electors Are expected to support their National the presidential and vice presidential rather than Candi dates for Are listed on the bal a similar Assumption is found in about a dozen states where both presidential and elector candidates Are listed on the Georgia and Mississippi have Laws providing for run Ning a pledged in Alabama last democrats decided in a primary to put a pledged elector candidates on the instead of a slate pledged to the National pledges that electors will support the National tickets arc required in Oregon and at least 17 other status have Laws that specifically instruct the electors to support the tar National tickets or abide by the popular vote in the state when they vote in the electoral some states appear to have provisions that permit electors to Vole Lor someone other than the party there has never been a Legal lest of whether pledges Are bind ing on 1residential what happens on election Day in pick a slate of elec tors Lor their the electors of whichever party sets the most popular Voles in the necessarily a empowered to cast the slates vote press Deal and vice pres ident in the electoral when does the electoral College Meel on the first monday after the second wednesday in this year victorious electors in each state meet at the state How docs the electoral College vote each elector casts one vote for presi Dent and one for vice Only restriction is that they May not vote for two persons from the same the official electoral votes Are then sent to the president of the normally the vice but this Sanute president pro Tern pore curl have meetings of the electoral col lege always been so routine the intent of the trainers of the Constitution was Hal the electors would be the Wisest men in the nation who would look Over the Field of presidential and vice presidential possibilities and then choose the men they deemed but the growth of the party system and the switch to popular election of electors chanced the balloting a familiar Light in 4 have any electors in recent elections voted independently in 1mb a Tennessee democratic elec Preston having announced he would not vote for president Harry Truman even though Truman carried the voted for states rights party nominee Strom in an Alabama democratic refused to vote for Adial Stevenson and voted instead for circuit judge Walter in Harry Eva received is electoral 14 from in pledged Alabama and Mississippi elec tors and one from an Oklahoma Roub Henry who refused to vote for Richard can a presidential candidate get fewer popular Voles than his opponent and still be elected for a combination of 11 Large states and the District of co Lumbia could provide enough electoral votes to win the a candidate could win these states by Small mar lose the Oiler 39 by big margins and have fewer popular votes than his opponent yet still win the these 11 states and their electoral vote Are new York Call Pennsylvania Illinois Ohio Texas Michigan new Jersey Massachi Sells Flor a Indiana 11 and total has the candidate with fewer popular votes Ever been elected president it has happened three times in 1824 John Sulney Adams finished i second i in a Fourman Field but finally won when the electoral College failed to nrnvis2 a majority and the election in the House of he Prescola Ives in ims Samuel Tilden lost by one e ecu Ira vote to Rutherford Hayes after least no n popular in 1888 Grover c u nuke Between 3 and the stars and stripes 14 the National designate new would not be bin Dana conceivably they i body if he after 14 would become president i both the Spetkar i would become president i has either Ever in 1872 democratic dilate Horace Greelej after he had lost to t Grant but before most of the Elk ticket had won were Palm entry gesture for c Llen Dricks of democratic ten Greeley were rejected i in vice Fin running for president William to few Days before the tall Sherman ticket i the Republican a designated Nicholas president of Columbu 1 Sherman eight i what happen i on s d joint l is held at which the opened and i Dent and vice the for the vote for vice presid what would happen i candidate received i i toral Voles the House of pick the president three candidates with members of the i state would and l then cast one Vole for dilate Hud the Hij states House the state would lose i of All has the House Ever i Dent in 1800