The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-08-02
PRESIDENT AND
VICE PRESIDENTS
OF UNITED STATES
HOW THEY ARE CHOSEN BY
THE ELECTORAL
COLLEGE.
PROVISIONS OF CONSTITUTION
Methods BY Which Successors Are
Selected In Case of Death, Remov-
al, Inability to Serve or Any Other
Reason NecessItatins Another.

selected In case OF Death, Remov-
al, Inability to Serve or Any Other
Reason NecessItating Another.
The voters Of the Union do not
vote directly for President and Vice
President.
Each State provides for the choos-
ing of Electors, and each State is
entitled to elect one Elector for each
Congressional district in said State
or for each Congressional represen-
tative the State is entitled to, and
also two Elector-at-Large from each
State, and it is these Electors that
are voted for by the citizens of the
respective states.
The candidates for Electors are
nominated under the State laws In
some States, and in other States I'M
der party rules or regulations.
State laws, or State party rules,
cover the naming of the Electors in
every State in the Union.
The legal number of Electors the
State Is entitled to, receiving the
highest number of votes at the
Presidential election in November,
become the Electors of the State
and form the Electoral College OF
the State. There is no law compel
ling the Electors to vote for the can
didates for President or Vice Presi-
dent who are named upon the ticket
of tickets.
Article XII. OF the Federal Consti-
tutional Amendments, declared in
force September rs, 1904, provides
as follows:
First-The electors shall meet
in their respective States and vote,
by ballot, for President and Vice
President, one Of whom at least
shall not be an inhabitant of the
same State with themselves.
They shall name in their ballots
the person voted for as President
and in distinct ballots the person
voted for as Vice President; and
they shall make distinct lists Of all
persons voted for as President, and
Ct all persons voted for as Vice
President, and of the number OF
votes for each; which lists they shall
sign and certify and transmit scaled
to the seat of the Government of the
United States, directed to the Presi
dent of the Senate.
The President of the Senate shall
il the presence of the Senate and
House Of Representatives, open all
the certificates, and the votes shall
then be counted.
The person having the greatest
number of votes for President shall
he the President, If such number be
majority of the whole number OF
Electors appointed; and if no per
son have such majority, then from
the persons having the highest mum
Der, not exceeding three, on the list
of those voted for as President. the
House of Representatives shall
choose Immediately, by ballot, The
President.
But in choosing the President the
votes shall be taken by States, the
representation from each State hav
ing one vote; a quorum for this
purpose shall consist of a member
OF members from two-thirds of the
States and majority of all the
States shall be necessary to a choice
"And if the House of Represen
tatives shall not choose President
whenever the right of choice shall
devolve upon them, before the 4tf
Gay of March next following, ther
the vive President shall act as Pre-
sident, as in the case of the deatf
or other constitutional disability O
the President.
"Second-The person having tht
greatest number of votes as Vice
President shall be the Vice Presi
dent, if such number be a majorit.
of the whole number of Electors ap
pointed, and if no person have 1
majority then from the two highes
numbers on the list the Senate shall
choose the Vice President.
"A quorum for the purpose shall
consist of two-thirds of the Who'll,
number of Senators, and majorit!
Of the whole number shall be neces
sary to choice. :"
In case of the removal, death, re
signation or inability of both tn
President and Vice President, tn
Presidential succession act, passes
by the Forty-ninth Congress in 1885,
provides that the Secretary Of Stat
shall act as President until the dis