12th amendment

election info

• electors meet in respective states
• And choose by ballot for president as well as vice president
• the votes shall be taken by states for the presidential race
•  the representation from each state having one vote 
• And the candidate with most votes win

In 1796, the system yielded a president from one party and a vice president for another. In 1800, two candidates from the same party received the same number of votes, throwing the matter into the House of Representatives where each state would cast a single vote.

An amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1804, providing for election of the president and vice president by the electoral college should there be no majority vote for one person, the House of Representatives one vote per state president and the senate vice president .

The electoral college actually elects the president.The Electoral College is made up of representatives from each state and Washington DC and the biggest states will have more representatives, which we call electors.

Bush v.gore

On December 8th of 2000, a local court in the state of Florida forced the city of Palm Beach to manually recount almost 10,000 ballots. That played a big part of the 2000 election.After losing the state of Florida and ultimately the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore petitioned that the ballots be recounted in a formal case.The reason for the manual recount was the result of malfunctioning ballot machines and the suspicion that some of the members of the ballot counting committee were not being honest in their attempts to tally the votes .

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• court ended up lettign the electoral college vote 
• they didnt leave it up to direct popular votes.
• so it ended up only being 538 votes in the 50 staes

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