Originally Posted by
herbertwest
Originally Posted by
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Listen to his statements about anyone who isn't white. He's also sexist, xenophobic and ignorant. "Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Today will be marked as the beginning of the decline and fall of the United States as a constitutional democracy and as a respected member of the world community. And from what I can tell, Hillary is leading in the popular vote. OK, it may only be a 100,000, but it is the lead. 59,390,851 to 59,215,097. This happened with Gore also. Maybe it is time to rethink this electoral college shit where a few states dictate to the rest of us and go with the popular vote. Anyway, I'll be buying a Lotto ticket today - I wouldn't mind living in the great white north.
And France - beware Marie Le Pen.
Can someone please remind me how exactly works the voting system in the USA?
Two candidates, citizens vote for the "senators" or something like this, one of the two sides.
The amount of senators are related to the amount of people in the related states.
The most amount of senators from one side, will define the president.
Something like this, right?
But then, how come someone that do not have the most votes becomes presidents? It's just sound... I guess that somehow he got more "senators" or something from his side, but that sounds weird to me.
there are a total of 538 electoral voters...
that total represents one for each or he 435 House of Representative seats...
1 for each of the 100 senators...
and 3 for the District of Columbia which is not a state thus does not have senators or Representatives of it's own. The reasoning on that is that the federal seat of government does not reside in any one state.
The house of representatives members from each state are allotted according to that state's population, the more people in the state, the more representatives they have. it's allotment is adjusted accordingly after each census (every 10 years) - states lose and gain as their populations decrease and increase percentage-wise to the overall population of the United States.
So the electoral voters representing the house of representatives from each state also increase and decrease percentage-wise according to that state's population percentages.
However, every state has 2 senators regardless of the population in that state - that never changes... so every state has 2 electoral votes that reflect that... regardless of the population densities. that is fixed.
So, in a state that has only 100,000 people - each senate electoral vote represents 50,000 voters
A state that has 10,000,000 residents- each senate electoral vote represents 500,000 voters
Therefore in smaller population states, each individual resident's vote actually counts more.
But then... since the overall electoral votes are fixed... even the house of representative associated electoral votes are weighted. Because of the huge populations verses the small number of electoral voters... there is no way that the allotments can be divided equally... you can't have 23.7 voters for a state... because there's .7 of a person doesn't exist... so due to rounding, large state's populations lose out there too.
The actual electoral voters that are associated with these, are usually decided on at each parties' state convention, and usually hold some elected position for that party.
Hope that helped.