Each state, under Article Two of the…

February 1789 CE

Each state, under Article Two of the United States Constitution, chooses a number of electors equal to its representation in Congress.

Each elector then casts two votes for President, requiring at least one of the two votes being for candidates from a state other than the one represented by the elector.

All sixty-nine electors cast one vote for Washington, so that he receives sixty-nine of sixty-nine possible votes, thus making his election unanimous.

Eleven candidates receive the electors' second votes, of which John Adams receives the most votes.

As the person who receives the second largest number of votes overall, he is elected vice president.

This procedure will be changed by the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution due to issues with Presidential and Vice-Presidential contentions and incompatibility, under which the electors will be able to cast separate ballots for both president and vice president from 1804.

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