Having barely lived through that along with the rest of the country, I pray that the popular vote and electoral vote totals align.
Forget Romney winning the popular vote and Obama winning the electoral vote.
Reagan won a landslide of the electoral vote, but less than 51% of the popular vote.
In Maryland they divided the electoral vote evenly with their opponents.
An instance of this is the proviso for the counting of the electoral vote.
On February 13 the electoral vote was to be counted in Congress.
My chief purpose is not to effect a change in the electoral vote of the Southern States.
The electoral vote was distributed territorially as might have been naturally anticipated, except in two particulars.
This, if successful, would destroy the control of the "Regency" over the electoral vote.
On February 9th, 1825, the two Houses of Congress met in joint assembly to count the electoral vote.
the tally of the number state-appointed party-affiliated electors for the US presidential candidate who has won a majority of the popular vote in that state, e.g. the number of Republican electors is the vote that goes to the Republican candidate when he/she wins the state
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