Friday, December 21, 2007

Who votes for the president of the United States?

Who?
The number of electoral votes of each state is the sum of its number of U.S. Senators (always two) and its U.S. Representatives. In each state, voters vote for a slate of pre-selected candidates for Presidential Elector, representing the various candidates for President. State ballots, however, are designed to suggest that the voters are voting for actual candidates for President. Most states use what is termed the short ballot, in which a vote for one party (Democratic or Republican) is interpreted as a vote for the entire slate of presidential electors. In the event that no candidate receives at least 40 percent of the popular vote, the joint resolution calls for a runoff 21 days after the general election between the two candidates with the greatest number of popular votes.

The problem with the Electoral College as implemented today is that it creates a huge round-off in the voting results. The popular vote is converted into an electoral vote, discounting the votes of the minority in the state.
The thing I like about the Electoral College is that they pick the president of the United States. They go off how many votes they get for their state that they are in and then they have to vote for that person. The thing I don’t like about the Electoral College is that they should not be able to pick the president of the United States, because the people are the ones that vote for the president of the United States to start it out. Then the person that gets the most votes should get to be the president of the United States.
People Voting for the President of the United States.

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