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President and Vice-President are elected due to their individual vote casted on election day. However, this is not completely accurate. They are elected by a group of officials, who have pledged to support their nominee, called the Electoral College. Each state has a number of electors comparable to their population: its number of senators (always two) and representatives in the House. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors who vote to decide who will be President and Vice-President of…

numbers, and more than often it’s a Democrat that gets elected. Most of the votes rely on demographics however, particularly the voters of diverse race and ethnicities. The white vote isn’t weak but nonetheless the Hispanic vote is often the stronger one, especially during the 2004 election although the white vote was significantly stronger in the 2012 election and still serves as something of a threat as most whites vote Republican. Hispanics, however, have the largest population that only…

Voter identification laws have been a major topic of discussion and source of tension over the past few election cycles in America. Lawmakers have been working quickly to enact these laws around the country since the contested 2000 election. These laws have risen out of a so-called need to combat widespread voter fraud in our elections; however, the laws are coming from one end of the political spectrum and have the tendency to only benefit that side 's electoral achievements. At the end of the…

University School of Law cites, “11 percent of American citizens don’t have government-issued photo identification such as a driver’s license, state ID card, military ID or a passport. But only 9 percent of whites lacked photo identification, compared with 16 percent of Latinos and 25 percent of…

Davis Merritt 10/16/15 1. Discuss the effects of the Revolutionary War on the agriculture, trade, and finances of the new nation. The British used a lot of money in the Revolutionary War which increased the debt hugely. When this happened taxes raised as a result. Britain relied on trade and was severely interrupted, with the imports and the exports causing large drops and the recession which caused a land and stock prices to rise up a lot. The plantation economies of the southern states were…

Johnson brought vastly different strengths to the presidency then Kennedy did. Johnson was the third consecutive president to enter without anyone business experience. Johnson fought in WWII and was the first congressmen to enlist in the armed services. Johnson also had many scandals both sexual and not. Johnson in a speech promised “upward to the Great Society”. The campaign of 1964 was merely a speed bump for Johnson on the highway to that Great Society. Running against Johnson was Berry…

not win by popular vote but by electoral votes; meanwhile, Abraham Lincoln won both, popular and electoral vote. During the 1860 presidential election, Abraham Lincoln succeeded in running against four other presidential candidates. He had won 180 out of the 303 electoral votes, exceeding his competitors. He was elected president “over a deeply divided Democratic party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency. Lincoln received only forty percent of the popular vote but handily…

this plan was introduced by Edmund Randolph and helped the bigger states. It had 3 branches the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial but it centred around the Legislative branch. It had a lower and upper house. The lower house was picked by popular vote and the upper house was picked by a list of people who were nominated by the states. The lower house were picked by the people. The 2nd plan was the New Jersey Plan it was introduced by William Patterson and this plan helped the smaller states.…

Earl Washington from Virginia was wrongfully convicted of rape and murder on January 20, 1984. He received the death penalty and after 16 years serving in prison, he was exonerated on October 2, 2000. Washington was convicted based on false confessions and improper forensic science; correspondingly, The Crucible was based on false confessions evident throughout the storyline. The connection between The Crucible and Earl Washington’s story suggests there is an issue with the American justice…

in which to vote and they are Personal, Postal, Electronic and By Proxy: o Personal: Voting personally means that an individual votes by going to a polling station and filling in a ballot paper that they then put into a ballot box. All voting is done anonymously and therefore each individual votes in separate polling booths. This stops any forestalling and voting intimidation. However, voting personally also takes time and money because staff are needed in order to count the votes. o Postal:…