United States (US) holding presidential elections soon (presidential election) on Wednesday (5/11).
In elections, the US does not adhere to the system of one person one vote or one person one vote. This system is usually used to determine the victory of the president who receives the most votes.
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The election results are the total number of votes cast by the people.
However, the US presidential election has a different system from that of Indonesia, for example. They have a popular vote system (people’s vote) and an electoral vote (which also determines victory).
It is the electoral vote that makes the US unable to be called a country that adheres to the system of one person one vote.
“When you vote in the United States presidential election, you are not directly voting for the candidate,” according to the website League of Voters.
They then said, “Instead, your vote directs the vote to the people who directly vote for president: the electors or members of the Electoral College.
In short, the Electoral College system means that the president and vice president are not elected based on a majority of the people.
The founders of the USA, also known as the Founding Fathers, created the Electoral College system, which they said was because they did not want citizens to directly elect a president and vice president . In the report The Conversationthey also do not want Congress to have much authority.
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The Electoral College is made up of Electors or a group of people who are tasked with representing each state to choose the president and vice president in the election.
Each state receives the same number of Electoral College votes as state senators and the House of Representatives. The Electoral College has a total of 538 votes.
To win the presidential election, a candidate must receive a majority of the electoral college vote with at least 270 out of 538 votes.
This means that the winner of the presidential election is not always the candidate who receives the most votes but the one who receives the most electoral votes.
On the website of a non-governmental organization focused on US affairs, American progressIn the history of elections, five times the candidate who received fewer votes was elected president.
One example was in the 2016 presidential election At that time, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton received votes from the popular vote of 65.3 million.
Meanwhile, Clinton’s opponent, Donald Trump, received only 63 million popular votes. However, Trump was ahead in winning the electoral vote. He received 290 electoral votes, and Clinton only 228 votes, as noted by Pew Research.
Therefore, Trump was elected as the president of the USA for the period 2016-2020.
How voters choose presidential and vice presidential candidates
US citizens choose election candidates, usually their names are below the presidential and vice presidential candidates.
However, the appearance of the elector’s name depends on each state’s voting rules and format.
If nothing else, when Americans elect their president and vice president, they also tell the states which party candidate has been chosen to represent the state at the convention. – vote.
After the electors have been chosen, they will gather or what is known as the Electoral meeting on December 16.
They will be given ballots, one for president and one for vice president.
The ballot papers are then counted and reported to the party that processes the certificate of verification.
After that, Congress will hold a session and count the votes received. When they are done, they will announce the legal winner in this election.
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