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Show PRESIDENTIAL POINTERS In the first four elections for president each elector voted for two candidates, the one receiving receiv-ing the largest number of votes : was declared president and the one who received the next largest larg-est number of votes was declared de-clared vice president. At the election of 1804 a president and vice president were voted for separately and an amendment to the Constitution provided that the president and vice president pres-ident could not be elected from the same state. To insure an election a candidate for president presi-dent or vice president must have a majority of all the electoral votes cast, otherwise the election elec-tion for president would be thrown Into the house of representatives repre-sentatives by states, each state having one vote, and for vice president Into the senate. |