The Electoral College system was established in Article II of the Constitution and amended by the 12th Amendment in 1804. Each state gets a number of electors equal to its number of members in the U.S. House of Representatives plus one for each of its two U.S. Senators. The District of Columbia gets three electors.
Minimum Hall Width. You did not say where you lived, and it makes a difference, since many time codes are different depending on where you live. You will indeed need to check with you permit department. Now in most areas it is 32 minimum. Fire door yes, 60 minute or 90 minute.
I was bidding the job off plans drawn by a young, wet-behind-the-ears architect. When I saw the straight hallway that led from the garage into the house, I felt it might be too narrow. The hallway just met the minimum width standard in the building code at the time of 36 inches finished wall to wall. One of the walls in the hallway was a bearing wall for the second floor joists, so the hallway needed to be framed early in the job.