What are electoral votes?

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Request for Question Clarification by tutuzdad-ga on 03 Nov 2004 06:33 PST

It can be rather complicated if you have no working knowledge of the
process at all. Is this what you are looking for?

HOW THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE WORKS
http://www.fec.gov/pages/ecworks.htm

I'd be delighted to know if this answers your question.

regards;
tutuzdad-ga

Hi joslinparris,

I have found a official definition:

"Electoral vote" means a vote computed by the following method: 
Each county shall be assigned a number of electoral votes equal in
number to its own population divided by the population of the least
populous county in the state.

Source (Chapter 3 & 4):

http://www.secstate.wa.gov/elections/initiatives/text/i749.aspx

Hope it helps,

Lannaeus

Please note that lannaeus-ga's comment relates only to a special kind
of "electoral votes" that are used in elections for statewide offices
in the state of Washington, not those that are used in the U.S.
presidential election.