Then all of the votes are counted, and if a candidate gets more than half the votes, he/she becomes the new president. If there is no majority then the election gets thrown into the House of Representatives, This almost never happens. There each state is given one vote and they vote on the top three candidates. If a candidate gets a majority vote, then he/she becomes president. If not they continue voting until a majority is reached and the speaker of the house become a temporary president until a majority is reached The state's seats in both the house and in the senate determine the number of electors. So with everything in mind if we take New York as an example which has thirty-one house seats, you add the amount of senate seats and the total is a number of thirty-three. That means that New York has a total of thirty-three electoral votes. .
Now each political party chooses bedrock members to become electors. Bedrock members of a particular party are just rank and file members but who are extremely loyal to the party. Now most people do not realize this but when the masses go to the voting booth, they are not voting for a candidate for the presidency, they are voting for electors. If one would look close enough in the voting booth they would see that underneath the candidates name the words "electors for" are inscribed. This means the race from state to state is not between the candidates, it's between the electors who support the candidate. The race to win the positions of electors is a winner-take-all race. That means even if the electors for Mr. X only got one more vote that Mr. Z, Mr. X would receive all of the electoral positions. .
Now this is a huge criticism of the system, quite a large number of Americans believe that the electoral votes should be split according to the popular vote with in the state. They believe that for instance if the popular vote is extremely close, they should split the electoral votes down the middle.
