THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
Although the Presidential election was to have.taken place on Tuesday last, the final result will not be known for several months to come. Tho actual machinery for selecting u candidate is set in work on November sth that terminated the campaign. But there are numerous formalities .vet to bo gone through. The States take what is constitutionally tho preliminary step of holding a popular vote to select tho electors, who are to choose tho President. The electors, on the second Monday in January next, are to meet in the capitals of their, respective States and then give their votes. On the second Wednesday in February tho votes are opened and counted in the presence of both [Houses of Congress, and the new President beins his term on March 4th. The electors number 531, and in the •absence of a clear majority, or 266 votes, for any one candidate, a deadlock will result, and the electoral college will have to resign to the House of Representatives the function of selecting the President.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 7 November 1912, Page 4
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174THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 7 November 1912, Page 4
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