Electoral College
By constitution, US has a unique system of electing President and Vice President.
Every four years elections are being held. On the Election Day voters do not choose President directly choose electors who will represent their will, hence voters indirectly choose a President and Vice President.
Electoral College consists of 538 electors. It includes 100 Senators, and every state has 2 Senators regardless the population. District of Columbia has the same number of electors as the state with least number of citizens which is currently 3. States also have more electors depending of population. Number of electors can change every 10 years depending on migrations between states.
Electors are being elected directly by voters. US citizens vote for presidential candidate but they actually choose those electors who had pledged to vote for their party’s presidential candidate. In most of the states “winner takes it all” rule is applied, which means, if a certain presidential candidate has majority of votes in the state he will get all votes. That means if a candidate …show more content…
Every state has 2 Senators and in addition certain number of electors which is proportional to population. The problem is, small counties, with small number of citizens have bigger percentage of electors then bigger states. This would instantly mean that vote in smaller states is more worth then the vote in bigger states, which doesn’t seem to be democratic. If we picture if US didn’t have this distribution of election votes, there would be another problem. Presidential candidates probably wouldn’t consider to propagate themselves in smaller states which would mean that smaller states are in some way excluded from presidential race. This system make candidate to have smaller states under the loop, but in the same they spend more and more money on their campaign in those
By constitution, US has a unique system of electing President and Vice President.
Every four years elections are being held. On the Election Day voters do not choose President directly choose electors who will represent their will, hence voters indirectly choose a President and Vice President.
Electoral College consists of 538 electors. It includes 100 Senators, and every state has 2 Senators regardless the population. District of Columbia has the same number of electors as the state with least number of citizens which is currently 3. States also have more electors depending of population. Number of electors can change every 10 years depending on migrations between states.
Electors are being elected directly by voters. US citizens vote for presidential candidate but they actually choose those electors who had pledged to vote for their party’s presidential candidate. In most of the states “winner takes it all” rule is applied, which means, if a certain presidential candidate has majority of votes in the state he will get all votes. That means if a candidate …show more content…
Every state has 2 Senators and in addition certain number of electors which is proportional to population. The problem is, small counties, with small number of citizens have bigger percentage of electors then bigger states. This would instantly mean that vote in smaller states is more worth then the vote in bigger states, which doesn’t seem to be democratic. If we picture if US didn’t have this distribution of election votes, there would be another problem. Presidential candidates probably wouldn’t consider to propagate themselves in smaller states which would mean that smaller states are in some way excluded from presidential race. This system make candidate to have smaller states under the loop, but in the same they spend more and more money on their campaign in those