The Basic Law says only that the chief is picked by an electoral college of 800 members.
He wants to get himself re-elected president by an electoral college of the current national and state assemblies.
The vote is broken down into three sections, known as an electoral college.
Edward Kennedy for renomination and defeated for re-election in an Electoral College landslide.
Well that high-pressure, high-security experience may be hard to come by sans an electoral college vote but a presidential-style vacation is not.
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Not for nothing have political insiders taken to calling the GOP path to an Electoral College majority the equivalent of drawing to an inside straight.
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Many recent electors have mulled switching their votes and little can be done to stop them, said Robert Alexander, an Electoral College expert at Ohio Northern University.
Indonesia's 1945 Constitution requires the formation of an electoral college, called the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR by its Indonesian initials), to select the nation's top two political leaders.
After the unresolved presidential election of 1824, when none of the four candidates achieved an Electoral College majority, the House met the following January to decide the outcome.
Although the Constitution does provide for electors, there is no mention of an Electoral College per se, and electors only meet in their individual states, not as a national body.
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But they weren't excited about the prospect of voting for members of an electoral college whose only function was to choose six out of 60 members of Hong Kong's Legislative Council a couple months from now.
Possibly, even by an electoral college landslide.
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Abandoning all pretext of grammatical structure, people who tried "poll results obama vs. mccain" wound up finding news stories about the polls and (a link or two later) an electoral college map with some of the latest numbers.
Both campaigns know that just a single electoral vote could play a decisive role in what's expected to be a historically close race, and that makes what happens in the event of an Electoral College tie all the more intriguing.
The Beijing government will no doubt find ways to control Hong Kong's shortlist of candidates but, unlike the recent selection of Mr Leung, who was returned by an electoral college consisting mainly of party sympathisers, the public is supposed to have the final say.
Rather than dismantling the Electoral College with an amendment, we can use the mechanisms of the Electoral College itself to guarantee popular election of the president.
According to RealClearPolitics's averages, Mr Obama is ahead in three southern states: Virginia (by an almost unassailable average of 7.6 points), Florida, with its rich haul of 27 electoral-college votes, by an average of 3.5 points, and most remarkably, perhaps, by 1.3 points in North Carolina.
Initiative, an organization dedicated to abolishing the Electoral College and instituting the direct election of the President of the United States by popular vote.
It is an end-run around the Electoral College, requiring each state that enacts it to cast its electoral votes for the candidate who won the national popular vote.
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Markets and the Electoral College told the truth about an economy and presidency that the media regularly tried to cast in a negative light.
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Trashing the Electoral College as undemocratic has always been an easy thing to do.
We should look more deeply at the claim that the Electoral College is undemocratic and the desirability of an alternative the National Popular Vote bill that is likely to be pressed upon us if this close election ends up in any kind of controversy, including a candidate who wins the popular vote and loses the electoral vote, or a major recount, or the highly unlikely tie vote.
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The electoral-college system is fiercely defended by small states as an integral part of the federal system.
The folks at National Popular Vote are shepherding an interstate compact that links states together to award their votes in the Electoral College on the basis of national tallies.
An Obama-Kaine duo would almost certainly put Virginia's 13 Electoral College votes even more in play for the first time since 1964, shifting the battleground to Pennsylvania and its 21 electoral votes.
Colorado is considering splitting its electoral-college votes in proportion to the votes cast (an idea which, if it spread, would make it worth Mr Bush's while to visit California and Mr Kerry's to visit Texas).
Such an outcome hasn't happened since 1888 when Grover Cleveland won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College to Benjamin Harrison .
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