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Mierra Isaac


The United States government, consists of and Electoral College, in which there are 538 electors

who decide who should be elected in actual elections. The way it works is, each state is given a

number of electors according to its population or size. About a month after an election is held

the electors go to their state capital and cast their ballots for the candidate that won the state they

represent. At the end of this process, all tallies and votes for president and vice president are

sent to the senate of the US, where they are opened and counted in alphabetical order. If no

candidate gets 270 votes, the House of Representatives goes into session and votes state by state

until a president is elected.

When reading the article, “Methods of Apportionment,” there were some methods that I fully

agreed with and there were some that I didn’t agree with, although, none of the methods satisfy

all requirements listed in the Rules for US Representatives. I agreed with Jefferson and

Webster’s method because they were less confusing and made more sense in the mathematical

sense of politics. Jefferson states in his method that “the higher the ratio, the more deserving the

state is to get a representative.” This method makes a lot more sense than Hamilton’s method, in

which I disagree with. Webster’s method was similar to Jefferson’s method, which states that “if

a fractional remainder were greater than one-half, another seat would be assigned,” in which

Jefferson’s did not. The reason why I agree with Webster’s method, as well as Jefferson’s is

because, to me, it makes more logical sense and it’s much easier to calculate how many states a

representative should have based on population, if I were to use the formula for a math or

science project. In conclusion, the Electoral College is much more complicated than voting. This

consist of knowledge, mathematics and research.