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C N New e w s p a raper per correspondents In Washington hington are being flooded with wIthIE IE Utters Hers ski Jg questions about tho the presidential election One of the tho m most mast t frequent questions questions questions ques ques- asked b by voters writing to Washington tf lf is Ira how It lt p It 1 19 for a President to be elect elected d by less than a majority vote Another question ques ques- tion tiou is whether it might be possible for a Republican ln President t and a lic Vice president or vice versa to be elected In National 1 Election EJection What most of or these inquirers do donot donot donot not quite understand is that nobody nobody nobody no no- body votes directly for either President President President dent or Vice Presidents and Vice Presidents PrEsidents are re not elected by the thc people they ar arc ar elected by bythe bythe bythe the states under the tho Cons Constitution I In each state the opposing parties I I nominate electors and andon andon on Oil Election Day the people will vote voto I t 1 riot not for elt and Garner or Landon n and ud Knox but for the presidential electors nominated by b their respective The number numb l' l c I t electors rs In each state slate Is the the- thes s same saino as the number of oC Senators and Representatives Rep Rep- which that state w has in Congress It is this thin system of voting oling by states for Cor President and Vice dent instead rj o of by direct popular voto for 11 the candidates that mode made it pO possible for Cor ten Presidents t to lie he elected who had fewer thon lion a majority majority ma ma- of the lie popular vote vole For Foi example Mr in iniss iss 1881 i carried man many states by very large larSe majorities but his hla majority of tho the popular vote voto in New York State was less than 2000 SA si that I r although ough this gave gae him a majority of the presidential electors electo s ho lie had hada a n minority of the nations nation's poj popular vote Yote The same sam thing occurred whoa whim Mr 11 Wilson was elected President in 1912 1012 In that year ear however the tho electoral vote was wlas as split beet three candidates c Mr 1 Toft Tort and Col cot noo Roosevelt between them had more popular votes than Mr 1 Wilson had I but Mr 1 Wilson got the tho majority cf or the tho electoral votes otes Tho Thin Electoral Vote ete eteA A question frequently tasked asked is whether electors chosen on time the Republican Republican Re Re- publican ticket could vote yote C for H. H the tho I Democratic candidates The Is IB that there thore is nothing whatever Inthe In Jn the time law liw to tp prevent from doing so They are ne free choen b by bythe tl the thc e people of or their state stale to vote for forthe forthe I Ithe the candidate for l President and Vice On November 3 as a matter of fact nobody will be elected President t. t Only presidential electors will b chosen varying van in number I from Now Yorks York's 17 to the he three each o of or aa Nevada and Wyo Wyo- V o- o ming rating The actual election of President and takes place when the electors ector chic che semi on November l Continued on last page This Week In I I Washington 0 O. C C. C Continued from I page age one 3 have met and cast their ballots The Constitution requires the electors electors elec elec- tors to meet in their several states and declare their choice for Cor Prest- Prest President dent clent and Vi Vice President and the number of electorate votes which they give to each CJ candidate They must then sign certify and transmit their ballot sealed ta to the President of the Senate who then in the presence presence presence pres pres- ence of the Senate and the House of Representatives opens these sealed envelopes pes and the electoral votes from Crom all the states state The President President President dent of the Senate who Is the Vice- Vice Pr President holding hOlding over from the tho preceding administration then declares declares de de- declares de- de clares who has been elected Prest- Prest deit delt and Vice President for the next four foul years In Case Ciso of Tic Tie Veto Voto Another question often asked is la what hat would happen il i i the vote should be a tie or 01 neither candi candi- I date h had ad a majority of r the electoral of or votes In that case the Nonce I Representatives would have to e NCi the vile President nl One of the reasons why the latest amendment to the Constitution pro pro- provides vides that the new Congress to he be elected November 3 shall take lake office on Son January 3 while the new President President dent does not go In until January 20 20 Is that In case aee of DC a tie In the presidential vote it will be the new Congress and not the old one which would elect the new President The House of Representatives Is limited In Its choice tn lu a. a a case to the tho candidates for whom electoral votes of states have be been n cast but hut it is not bound in ii t any way by hy tho thos s size ze of oC the popular vote 0 of any can can- Only once has the election of a 3 President Pre been thrown h into lo the House of Representatives That was In 1876 when Samuel J J. J TiMen Tilden Democrat of New York ran against Rutherford B B. B Hayes of Ohio On the face of the returns Mr 11 Tilden appeared to be elected but charges of fraud in the Democratic vote ln in n Louisiana were made and the Republican Republican Re Re- Republican publican contended that the DemOcratic Democratic Democratic Demo DemO- cratic electors of pf Louisiana had not actually received r a plurality Y 0 of It i popular vote Yote The House of ent I i pointed an electoral c o Investigate and advise the jj flout o a The Thc commission reported d that th Democratic electors of or Lour 1 had not been heen properly e eHouse eec ted I House adopted the report O of electoral commission and g gaVe it Presidency to General l B Hayes Ye |