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How Do The United States Of America Conducts Her Election?? by dFroshie(m): 6:41pm On Nov 06, 2020 |
Can someone please enlighten me on how the United States does her election cause the whole process is confusing from mail voting to electoral College to number of electors |
Re: How Do The United States Of America Conducts Her Election?? by Amotolongbo(f): 6:46pm On Nov 06, 2020 |
dFroshie:Electoral College is the simply the proportional representatives of the States coming together to elect the President. Each State is represented proportionally, ie based on the resident population of the state. The largest state in US is California, hence with the largest electoral votes of 55. Washington D.C is accorded the same number of votes as the state with the least electoral votes. Mail voting simply means sending the vote through mail (Post Office) by an individual voter in the popular vote electing a representative into the electoral college. However, the constitution doesn’t mandate an elector to vote for the contestant of his party. An elector who votes for a contestant of different party is called a faithless elector |
Re: How Do The United States Of America Conducts Her Election?? by majamajic(m): 6:54pm On Nov 06, 2020 |
dFroshie: Lagos supposed be 40 points Kano 32 points Abuja 25 Anambra 20 Kebbi 2 Osun 7 Bayelsa 22 They rank the states according to important or personnels , state value So if u win lagos u get 40 points , if u win kebbi u get 2 points |
Re: How Do The United States Of America Conducts Her Election?? by Amotolongbo(f): 6:56pm On Nov 06, 2020 |
majamajic:Stop publicizing your ignorance The states are ranked by population. Go and read about the Connecticut Compromise Moreover, The Capital, District of Columbia (D.C) must always have the same votes as the States with the least votes which is 3 |
Re: How Do The United States Of America Conducts Her Election?? by majamajic(m): 7:24pm On Nov 06, 2020 |
Amotolongbo: Note that I gave Lagos and Kano high rank |
Re: How Do The United States Of America Conducts Her Election?? by Amotolongbo(f): 7:28pm On Nov 06, 2020 |
majamajic:What about the others, most especially Abuja and Bayelsa? Bayelsa should be having the least electoral vote. |
Re: How Do The United States Of America Conducts Her Election?? by dFroshie(m): 8:07pm On Nov 06, 2020 |
Amotolongbo: Chill these electors are they the senators and house of representatives members in Parliament |
Re: How Do The United States Of America Conducts Her Election?? by OlujobaSamuel: 9:07pm On Nov 06, 2020 |
dFroshie:None. The electors are like delegates. Each state has its own rules on how to share the vote for a candidate. Most states except for few give whole electoral allocation to candidate that wins popular votes in such state. Eg, Lagos State is having 20 electors, if PDP should win Lagos during the presidential election, the 20 electors in Lagos will cast their vote for the PDP candidate. Some states(few) have a sharing ratio, for instance, Yobe is having 15 electors, with ratio of 66 to 34%, if APC wins the state, APC will be given about 10 electoral votes while PDP takes 5 |
Re: How Do The United States Of America Conducts Her Election?? by Amotolongbo(f): 4:56am On Nov 07, 2020 |
dFroshie:Nope, the electors aren’t the congressmen, that is house members. They are just voters elected by the popular votes, given the task to represent the states in electing the President and Vice President But if there is none of the candidates winning the absolute majority in the electoral college election, then there will be a need for the Contingent Election, where the newly elected congressmen will have to elect the President and Vice President. The House of Representatives members will have to elect the president while the senate will have to elect the Vice President. |
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