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OpenStudy (anonymous):

As the political parties rose, how did the electoral college change in regards to the election of vice president?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

please help it's a matter of me graduating or not

OpenStudy (wwhitlock):

Originally each candidate was nominated individually. The Electoral College awarded the first and second place candidates President and Vice-President. That worked ok with Washington and Adams. There were no parties, but they started to develop. In 1796, Adams was elected president and Jefferson, the head of the developing opposition Republican party, was vice president. That didn't work to well. The vice-president was working against everything the president was trying to do. In 1800, Jefferson and Aaron Burr were nominated as president and vice-president by the Republicans. But each was nominated individually, It ended up a tie. At one point it looked like Burr would become president with Jefferson as VP. That didn't happen, but it caused enough concern that everyone agreed a change should be made. Each party would designate candidates as Pres and VP. They would get EC votes as a pair instead of individually. They didn't want to repeat the 1800 fiasco. So that's the system we use today.

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