The United States of America presidential election .
I read some times of how people talked about the POTUS ( president of the United States) election , of how people confused the popular votes with the electoral college. The president of the United States is voted by group of electors known as the electoral college. There are 538 electoral college which is equated to the number of representatives each state has in the Congress , and the capital which has the same number of electoral college as the smaller states. Before the election each community meets to chose the electors before the election.
In drafting the constitution of the United States on issues that was widely discussed and argued is how to elect the president and vice president of the United state, until the electoral college was agreed upon.
Presently there are 538 electors and the president of the United States is been chosen if any of the candidate has won than half of the electors which is 270 electoral college. However people has condemned the 2016 election between Dolad trump and Hillary Clinton . Hillary Clinton won the popular votes while Dolad trump won the electoral college people were confused and I had to tell a lot of them to go on research about how the president is been elected.
What happens if no candidate gets enough electoral votes?Pursuant to the 12th Amendment, the House of Representatives is required to go into session immediately after the counting of the electoral votes to vote for president if no candidate for the office receives a majority of the electoral votes. ... The House continues balloting until it elects a president.
Who sits on the Electoral College? The president and vice president of the United States are elected by the Electoral College, which consists of 538 electors from the fifty states and Washington, D.C. Electors are selected state-by-state, as determined by the laws of each state.
Addendum: Electoral College is a system born of compromise deeply rooted in America's slavery foundation. I will explain this in my subsequent post.
Has the association press who is in charge of announcing the winners called the election on Friday announcing Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States. The election has seem to have a winner , how ever the incumbent president is seeking legal action to recount some election which he termed has legal votes . Another drama would be pursued in the supreme court to determine a lot of things about the election and activities in the United States.
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I heard about it a lot on facebook and twitter. The US president election is more complicated that it seem 😐