History & Society
Electoral College
United States
Recent News
Apr. 10, 2024, 12:59 PM ET (AP)
Conservatives compelled by Trump are pushing Nebraska to adopt a winner-take-all election system
Apr. 3, 2024, 5:06 PM ET (AP)
Months ahead of the presidential election, Nebraska's GOP governor wants a winner-take-all system
Electoral College, the system by which the president and vice president of the United States are chosen. It was devised by the framers of the United States Constitution to provide a method of election that was feasible, desirable, and consistent with a republican form of government. For the results of U.S. presidential elections, see the table. During most of the Constitutional Convention, presidential selection was vested in the legislature. The Electoral College was proposed near the end of the convention by the Committee on Unfinished Parts, chaired by David Brearley of New Jersey, to provide a system that would select ...(100 of 1455 words)