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Re: US Election 2020: The Electoral College System Explained by chewwie(m): 11:00am On Nov 11, 2020 |
Jeromejnr: That's how a true Federal system of government works. |
Re: US Election 2020: The Electoral College System Explained by chewwie(m): 11:02am On Nov 11, 2020 |
IamPatriotic:Ekpa! The Electoral College is made up of 538 electors. If 270 of those electors vote for a particular candidate, he becomes president even in 200 million Americans vote for a different candidate. |
Re: US Election 2020: The Electoral College System Explained by chewwie(m): 11:04am On Nov 11, 2020 |
RedScorpion:You'd think that if you spend all day watching CNN |
Re: US Election 2020: The Electoral College System Explained by chewwie(m): 11:05am On Nov 11, 2020 |
pansophist:No, they were never designed to be democratic, they're a Constitutional Republic. |
Re: US Election 2020: The Electoral College System Explained by chewwie(m): 11:06am On Nov 11, 2020 |
greatseed:Who told you Biden won the Electoral College when it hasn't even been held? The Electors will vote on the 14th of December, and in most States, the Legislature picks the electors and guess what, the Republicans control the legislature in NC, MI, PA, WI, GA, AZ and many other swing states. Keep watching. |
Re: US Election 2020: The Electoral College System Explained by chewwie(m): 11:09am On Nov 11, 2020 |
oluwaseyi0:It is not democratic because the USA was never designed to be a democracy. An electoral college vote in Vermont or Wyoming is 3 times more valuable than a vote in California. That was by design. |
Re: US Election 2020: The Electoral College System Explained by chewwie(m): 11:14am On Nov 11, 2020 |
dejonathan:Then it'll go the the House of Representatives where each state will have one Rep vote for one candidate. A 26-state majority is needed to win. Then the Senate would vote for the VP candidate, 51 majority votes is needed to win. |
Re: US Election 2020: The Electoral College System Explained by chewwie(m): 11:15am On Nov 11, 2020 |
rolams:For every example of fraud against Clinton you provide, I'll show you 2 evidences of fraud against Trump. |
Re: US Election 2020: The Electoral College System Explained by chewwie(m): 11:21am On Nov 11, 2020 |
Latidoh1:Stop saying what you don't know. No president has been elected in the USA. The Electoral College vote will take place on the "Monday after the second Wednesday in December". The votes will be counted on Jan 3rd, announced on the 13th. Sorry |
Re: US Election 2020: The Electoral College System Explained by chewwie(m): 11:25am On Nov 11, 2020 |
Macpro:California used to be a swing state back in the 60s & 70s, but lost that status when she turned blue. Swing state status has nothing to do with the number of electoral votes a state has, it has to do with her voting pattern. Ohio, PA, WI, MI, FL are swing states because they can go to a Republican this year & go to a Democrat 4 years from now. California, New York, Alabama, Texas, New Jersey, etc. are not swing states because they've been voting one way for more than 40 years. |
Re: US Election 2020: The Electoral College System Explained by rolams(m): 11:28am On Nov 11, 2020 |
chewwie: Hahaha! Funny you!! Do you know Trump has lost a whopping 7 cases as regards this 2020 election due lack of evidence. All his claims are baseless. |
Re: US Election 2020: The Electoral College System Explained by chewwie(m): 11:29am On Nov 11, 2020 |
Ifesinachi22:Do you even bother to read? Ever heard of a faithless elector? How did Bernie Sanders get one Electoral vote in 2016 when he wasn't even on the ballot? Most electors pledge to vote with the state's popular votes. If state legislatures in PA, NC, MI, AZ controlled by the GOP select electors who pledge to vote for Trump in the Electoral College on Dec 14th, there's nothing anybody can do about it. Why do you think Democrats hate the Electoral College? |
Re: US Election 2020: The Electoral College System Explained by chewwie(m): 11:32am On Nov 11, 2020 |
ThatFairGuy:1. Warren and Sanders have never been presidential nominees, where did you get that from? 2. Doing away with the Electoral College will lead to the dissolution of the Union that is the United States of America. Many states only joined the Union because of the Electoral College. |
Re: US Election 2020: The Electoral College System Explained by IamPatriotic(m): 11:34am On Nov 11, 2020 |
chewwie: Ẹranko! I knew this since the year 2000, if you have issues with comprehension, blame it on your father who failed to give you proper education. |
Re: US Election 2020: The Electoral College System Explained by chewwie(m): 11:39am On Nov 11, 2020 |
femi4:Maybe, but it won't be so for long because Electoral votes are awarded based on the number of congressional house districts a state has + 2 senatorial seats and House seats are carved out in proportion to the population. That's why California wants the Census Commission to count illegal immigrants so that they'll get more seats in Congress & more Electoral votes |
Re: US Election 2020: The Electoral College System Explained by ThatFairGuy: 11:40am On Nov 11, 2020 |
chewwie:It's an excerpt from the post I quoted. Maybe |
Re: US Election 2020: The Electoral College System Explained by chewwie(m): 11:42am On Nov 11, 2020 |
Nuel4:Some people will still insult you & call you a liar after this well written piece. |
Re: US Election 2020: The Electoral College System Explained by chewwie(m): 11:50am On Nov 11, 2020 |
IamPatriotic:Says the intellectual who said the Electoral College Electors are not humans |
Re: US Election 2020: The Electoral College System Explained by ayusco85(m): 4:29pm On Nov 11, 2020 |
Asukuebira1: Yeah but it's proned to rigging. However the college electoral system is outdated and it has outlived it's purpose. |
Re: US Election 2020: The Electoral College System Explained by RedScorpion(f): 5:54pm On Nov 11, 2020 |
chewwie: And what is Fox News saying |
Re: US Election 2020: The Electoral College System Explained by Ifesinachi22(m): 7:07pm On Nov 11, 2020 |
chewwie: Unlike in most elections, the person who becomes president is not necessarily the candidate who wins the most votes on Election Day. Instead, the election of the president of the United States is a two-step process. First, voters cast ballots on Election Day in each state. In nearly every state, the candidate who gets the most votes wins the "electoral votes" for that state, and gets that number of voters (or "electors" in the "Electoral College." Second, the "electors" from each of the 50 states gather in December and they vote for president. The person who receives a majority of votes from the "Electoral College" becomes President. How exactly does this work? Under the "Electoral College" system, each state is assigned a certain number of "votes". There are a total of 538 electoral votes, and the number of votes each state receives is proportional to its size --- the bigger the state's population the more "votes" it gets. The formula for determining the number of votes for each state is simple: each state gets two votes for its two US Senators, and then one more additional vote for each member it has in the House of Representatives. For California, this means we get 55 votes (2 senators and 53 members of the House of Representatives) --- the most of any state. |
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