How Many Votes does it take to become President

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How Many Votes does it take to become President?
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Goals of the project

• Determine the least number of popular votes it
  would take to win the presidential election
• Mathematically show how the conclusion was
  reached
• Create a concise, organized, paper and PowerPoint
  depicting work and findings
• Work together as a team to draw conclusions
• Clearly state ALL assumptions and hypotheses
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Information collected to help with the
calculations

• It is known thatMany would like to change this
  system, but since it gives small states a larger
  voice per population, change is very unlikely.
• Use this information as the inspiration for the
  calculationsthe knowledge of proportions can
  help to find the smallest number of votes needed
  to win the electoral college votes.

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Data

• Election Facts
• It takes 270 Electoral Votes to be elected
  President.
• The final result in 2000 was 271-266, with one
  abstaining. Based on Electoral Vote changes
  (based on the 2000 Census), the exact same
  election would result in a 278-260 result.
• Electoral Vote changes for 2004 AZ 2, CA 1, CO
  1, CT -1, FL 2, GA 2, IL -1, IN -1, MI -1, MS
  -1, NV 1, NC 1, NY -2, OH -1, OK -1, PA -2, TX
  2, WI -1

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DATA

• As of 2000, the District of Columbia and all
  states except Maine and Nebraska had adopted the
  winner-take-all system.

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Computations

• Total votes

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Number of Electoral votes each state receives
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Assumptions why used and their consequences

• Data from the 2000 election was used in our
  calculation
• The number of voters from each state is known
• The population of each state is known based on
  the 2000 Census
• Problem - The number of voters in each state will
  be different in 2004 than it was in 2000
• .
• .

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More Assumptions / consequences

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• Here is a summary of the arithmetic

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Conclusion

• Therefore The least number of popular votes it
  would take to win the election is
• ______

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Site Sources

• Information from about the number of electoral
  colleges was gathered from http//www.archives.go
  v/federal_register/electoral_college/