Encyclopaedia Britannica entry on the United States Electoral College, its constitutional basis, elector allocation and the winner-take-all convention.
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PublisherEncyclopaedia Britannica
URLhttps://www.britannica.com/topic/electoral-college
Source Typeencyclopedia
Reliability Tier1
Encyclopaedia Britannica: a professionally edited, editorially reviewed general reference encyclopedia, the same tier already used for this atlas's other Britannica citations. Direct render blocked (HTTP 403) during verification; its account of the 270-of-538 majority rule, the winner-take-all convention outside Maine and Nebraska, and the four elections in which the electoral and popular-vote winners diverged (1876, 1888, 2000, 2016) is corroborated by this same lane's direct, successful fetch of the National Archives' own Electoral College pages, cited separately. Cross-Tradition Connections
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- Political Mechanisms, 6 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 connected, 1 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Articles, 5 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 general references.
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