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[Keith Broaders]

Only a total of 28,809 people actually voted for George Washington in the 1788 election amd 11,171 voted for him in 1792.

In the Presidential Election of 1824   there were 374,026 popular votes cast, but in 1828 there were 1,153,779 people voting in the Presidential Election.

In an effort to prevent our country from becoming a democracy rhe men who wrote the Constitution decided rather than allowing all of people vote directly for the President each Congressional District would choose a panel pf wise man to vote for the candidatetheybelieved woupanel ld do the best job for the people in their Congresional District.

The men who wrote the Constitution realized that the vast majority of people at that time were not as well educated enough to vote intelligently so they created a method allowing every Congressional District to have  the responsibility to cast his vote for the residents of his Congressional District,

The states legislatures were given the authority to choose the method that would be used to select their Presidential Elector.

Two electors appointed by state legislature Each remaining elector chosen by state legislature from the two most popular candidates in each U.S. House district	Massachusetts
Each elector chosen by voters statewide; however, if no candidate wins majority, state legislature appoints electors from top ten candidates	New Hampshire
Sate divided into electoral districts, with one elector chosen per district by the voters of that district	Virginia(b) Delaware
Electors chosen at large by voters	Maryland Pennsylvania
State had not yet ratified the Constitution	North Carolina Rhode Island

New York's legislature did not choose electors on time.
^(b) One electoral district failed to choose an elector.

1.  73 total electors were appointed, four of which did not vote (2 in Maryland and 2 in Virginia). According to the unamended constitution, a majority of the total number of appointed electors was required for election to the Presidency.

1.  New York had ratified the Constitution but its legislature failed to appoint presidential electors on time, while North Carolina and Rhode Island had not yet ratified. Vermont governed itself as an unrecognized republic.The founding fathers believed that the average American was not well informed enough to vote intelligently so they believed that the best educated man in ach Congressional District should cas the vote for his district.

 

 

 

[Keith Broaders]

In the first Presidential Election in 1788 the people o Delaware, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Georgia and New Jersey did not even get to  vote for the President.

New York had not yet chosen their electors and North Carolina and Rhod Island had not yet ratified ther Constitutiom and could not participate in the election. Onlythe 69 electors from 10 of the 13 states actually elected George Washington.