1. What Is the Total Number of Electoral Votes?

1. What is the total number of electoral votes? 2. How many electoral votes must a candidate win to be elected president? 3. What is the least number of electoral votes in any one state? 4. List the states, and one federal district, that have this many (answer to #3) electoral votes?

5. Seven states have at least 18 electoral votes; list these seven in order from most to least electoral votes. Include the number of electoral votes each of these states has.

6. If a candidate won the seven most populous states, how many more electoral votes would he/she need to win the election?

7. What is the fewest number of states that a candidate could win and become president? How many states could a candidate lose and still be elected president?

8. True or False? Utah + Missouri + Tennessee < Florida.

9. Should we keep using the electoral system to elect the president, or should we use a different method? Explain your answer.