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A New President How Is Elected February 1988
Elmo Scott Watson explains the presidential election process as of 1988, detailing the January to February sequence of electoral vote counting in Congress, the roles of the president of the Senate and the House, and the historical shift from electors traveling to Washington to mail certificates under a 1928 law.
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Elmo Scott Watson
United_States
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York
John N. Garner
Texas
Roosevelt
Houses of
Congress
Charles Curtis
United States Senate
Curtis
Washington
Electoral College
United States
Senate
House of Representatives
Capitol
House
Georgia
Philadelphia
William Houston
Houston
Statehouse
By. Messenger
Secretary of State
Secretary of State of the
Houses of Congress
State Department
Union