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For the first time in our history the freedmen voted for presidential electors.
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Lyons ran ahead of his ticket, receiving more votes than the presidential electors.
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The state convention also names the presidential electors to be supported by the party.
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The presidential electors were at that time chosen by the legislature, meeting in joint ballot.
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How many presidential electors is this state entitled to?
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In some States, the people had no voice whatever in choosing the President, because the State presidential electors.
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The people on election day were not supposed to be voting for a president but for presidential electors.
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Facebook Twitter Pinterest Melinda Smyser, one of Idaho's four presidential electors, said she would not be changing her vote.
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The Twelfth Amendment, adopted in 1804, provided that presidential electors should cast separate ballots for President and Vice President.
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The Electoral Count Act placed on the states the burden of deciding contests arising from the choice of presidential electors.
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South Carolina secedes%.-Theonly state where in 1860 presidential electors were chosen by the legislature was South Carolina.
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Moreover, the six States which chose the presidential electors through their legislatures, contained one fourth of the population of the country.
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State conventions of delegates to nominate state officers, such as governors and congressmen and presidential electors, had long been in use.
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At present the latter mode prevails in all the states except South Carolina, where presidential electors are still chosen by the legislature.
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Whenever presidential electors were voted for directly by the people, the poll was small compared with the vote for members of Congress.
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The Senate also passed a bill conferring upon women the vote for presidential electors; but neither ever reached a vote in the House.
