Understanding The Electoral Votes, Not Hard

 

Understanding The Electoral Votes, Not Hard

 There are 538 total electoral votes, but where did that number come from? There are 438 members in congress and 100 senators (2 each from all 50 states) and that totals up to 538.A total of 270 or more electoral votes wins the election.

Now let's divide 538 by 2; The bottom are just  examples and not the actual  election results:

                             Biden: 269

                             Trump:269

 As you can see it's a tie, in this case the house will vote on who is going to be the new president, while the senate votes who will be the next vice- president. Yes, the President and vice-President can be from two different parties.

Here is another example and again not the actual election results.

                           Biden: 270

                          Trump: 268

As you can see there is no way for Trump to catch up,Trump cannot reach 270 or more, That's it; Biden has won. All Trump can hope for is to reach 268 votes..So if you're watching the election, and see that Biden has already has 264 electoral votes, he only needs 6 more electoral votes,, at this point, you can say "It's in the bag" and go to bed. Those 6 points won't be hard to get.

As I recall these are the results of the November 3rd election:

                        Biden: 290

                        Trump: 217

Let's add 290 to 217: ( 290 + 217)=507 and now let's subtract 507 from 538, to find out how many electoral votes are left: (538-502)=31.If we add 31 to Trump's side it totals 248 and again there is no way for Trump to catch up. The election was stopped at this point, There was no sense going on, but math-less Trump wanted recounts until the results of:

                          Biden: 306

                         Trump: 232

        As you can see (306+232) adds up to 538.All the electoral votes have been counted. Yeah," math-less" probably a new word I have made up, maybe it should be in the dictionary--lol (end)