Divaex
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re: VOTE
by Divaex on Sun Nov 04, 2012 3:03 am
Election day is this Tuesday, November 6 - make sure you get out and vote!
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Divaex
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re: VOTE
by Divaex on Mon Nov 05, 2012 3:58 pm
How Voting Works & Why it's important to actively choose your state officials:
Votes cast by the people of the United States -- known as the "popular vote" -- are used to choose the president and vice president "indirectly" through the Electoral College.
Popular votes cast in the presidential election are actually being cast for a number of electors. Each state gets a number of electors equal to the state's number of representatives in the House and Senate.
There are a total of 538 electors.
The candidate winning the most popular votes in a state gets all of that states electoral votes.
The first candidate to win 270 or more electoral votes is elected.
It is possible for a candidate to lose the popular vote and still be elected president by the Electoral College. Four presidents have been elected in this manner: John Quincy Adams in 1824, Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876, Benjamin Harrison in 1888 and George W. Bush in 2000.
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