This is a challenge cache and the cache is at the posted coordinates. You are running for President of the United States of Geocaching (POTUSG) and you must ensure that you receive enough votes from the electoral college to win. Your platform? More geocaching for all, lower prices on the stuff at geocaching.com, and cache owners who don't maintain their caches must answer for their crimes. With hardwork, you expect to sweep the nation and bring a new era of geocaching to the United States. Should you succeed, the oval office of travel bugs awaits you!
Congrats to 1st President PatientRock
TO COMPLETE THIS CHALLENGE: You must find at least one geocache in enough states (labs, virtuals, earth caches, etc. do count). States you have found at least one geocaches in are equal to the number of electoral vote that state receives (eg one find in Minnesota equals 10, a find in Texas equals 35 for a total of 45). You must have found enough states to equal 270 or more - the winning majority of the electoral college. And while Nebraska and Maine split their electorial votes, they are winner take all states in this race.
LOGGING REQUIREMENTS: You must post your states and eletrocal count victory in the virtual log and sign the physical log. Posts that violate either requirement will be deleted.
HOUSEKEEPING: Please be sure to re-lock and secure the cache.
TB HOTEL: Even if you do not qualify for the cache, please feel free to take and place travel bugs.
Check if you have been elected President and qualify for the cache here:
What is the electoral college?
In the United States, the Electoral College is the group of presidential electors required by the Constitution to form every 4 years for the sole purpose of appointing the president and vice president. Each state appoints electors under the methods described by its legislature, equal in number to its congressional delegation (representatives and senators). The federal District of Columbia also has 3 electors under an amendment adopted in 1961. Federal office holders, including senators and representatives, cannot be electors. Of the current 538 electors, an absolute majority of 270 or more electoral votes is required to elect the president and vice president. If no candidate achieves a majority there, a contingent election is held by the House of Representatives to elect the president and by the Senate to elect the vice president.
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