Answers to “What is Your Electoral College Procedures I.Q.?
Question One - 3. 1961
Question Two - 3. 3
Question Three - 3. Set by Congress.
Question Four - 3. Set by Congress.
Question Five - 1. A simple majority of the votes cast.
Questions Six - 4. The House of Representatives decides by a simple
majority of states (26 states must choose the winning candidate).
Question Seven - 3. The Senate decides by a simple majority of the
individual members.
Questions Eight - 3. There is no Constitutional obligation for Electors
to vote according to the state popular vote.
Questions Nine - 2. A defecting Elector has never decided a Presidential
election.
Questions Ten - 1. A special election may be unconstitutional.
Evaluate Your Test Results
0-2 This is a tough test, but if you took American Government in high school,
you should have been able to answer this many correctly! Hmmm. Were you,
by any chance, voting in Palm Beach County Florida during the 2000 Presidential
election?
3-5 You knew a bit and made some good guesses. Consider yourself somewhat
savvy about the Electoral College system.
6-8 You know your Electoral College procedures very well, better than
a lot of the pundits who were really scrambling as Election Night 2000 took
a detour into one of history's wild-and-crazy files.
9-10 You are an Electoral College wizard, one of a small handful on
the planet. You are probably too smart to be a pundit, but you might have
a shot at winning a lot of money if you get on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire,"
and one of the six figure questions (or the big seven figure question)
is about the Electoral College.
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