Executive Branch
•Section 1
•Clause 2
•270 Electoral College Votes required
•Based on total number of House members (435) and Senators (100) and 3 for D.C.
•Majority of 538 = 270
•48 states have a “winner-take-all system for allotting votes
•Maine and Nebraska use a district system
•Popular vote and the Electoral College
•In four elections candidate with most votes did not win election
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