What are electronic votes and how does a candidate get them?

Question

Yes,I did mean to type electoral votes.
Thanks for the good eye.

Answer 1

Do you mean electoral votes?

Electoral votes are votes cast by members of the electoral college. Essentially, American voters "vote" to tell the members of the electoral college how to cast their ballots. Each state gets a certain number of votes based on population (electoral votes are equal to the number of the state's seats in the House of Representatives). The writers of the Constitution created this system because people back in the day were generally uninformed about political candidates. In other words, they were trying to protect elections for the "stupid" masses.

I'm not sure if there are actually electoral college voters anymore or if Wolf Blitzer just keeps track of the electoral votes. Either way, the popular vote does not matter at all. Consider the 2000 election, when Al Gore won the popular vote, but because of the combination of states he won, George Bush won the electoral vote.

Answer 2

Electoral votes are calculated through the electoral college, and each state has a certain number of electoral votes based on there population.
You answered my previous question on Romney. You stated I supported Democrates in previous answers. What are you talking about? Hillary is too Butch? What does that have to do with research? I know more about politics than you.

Answer 3

There are still electoral voters. Most states do not list them on the ballot, but the national archives has a list of them. In theory, they could vote for someone besides the candidates that they are pledged to vote for, but most of them are loyal members of the party that nominated them.

As to electronic votes, I know that some jurisdictions are experimenting with ways to vote by internet, but I do not know of any that have gone that way beyond an experimental basis.

EDIT

Each state gets a certain number of electoral votes equal to its combined representation in the House of Representatives AND the Senate (or more simply their House delegation plus 2). As such, it is not exactly proportional to population as that formula weights things slightly toward the smaller states. In almost all of the states, the slate of electors nominated by the party that gets the most votes statewide for its presidential candidate is elected. In two states (Nebraska and Maine), they award two electors based on the state-wide total and one elector based on the total in each congressional district.

Whichever slate of electors is elected goes to their state capitol on (I think) the third Wednesday in December and officially cast their votes. As noted above, the vote is almost always for the nominee of their party. There have been a handful of exceptions -- but all of these exceptions have been with electors pledged to candidates who lost nationally.

The results in each state are then forwarded to Congress where they are officially counted at the beginning of January.

Answer 4

the candidates corporate backers pay money. then the machine generates the appropriate amount of votes for them. just a neat way of fixing the system without leaving a paper trail.