How does the American election work?
Hi, I am sincere_atom and i will be explaining how the American election woks. The American election is very different and more complicated than how it works in the UK.
The American election is the system they use to elected the new president (every four years) to run the entire of America. Firstly, both of the parties (republicans and democrats) each get to vote for one candinate to run for president. Next, between January and June, the parties hold little votings in each state ( 50 states in total) to vote for which candinate they want to win the voting.
On the first Tuesday in november americans will vote for people called electors in their state who are supporting the candinate they want to be president. The more people that live in a state the more electors that state has. In the end there is a total of 538 votes across all states in America.
The candinate with the most electors votes wins all the states electral votes and the first candinate to get to 270 votes will win the entire voting and become the new president!
But not just anyone can become president. Below are the rules listed:
-Must be 35 or over
-Must have lived in America for at least 14 years
-Been born in America
Now that we have summed up evrything i would like to say that I dont think this system is fair because if you wanted the republicans to win the election for example and then you had to vote for a elector in your state and you voted someone who was supporting the republican party but everyone else voted for someone who supported the democrat party then a democrat supporter would win the electors place and then the candinate that was in the democrat party would win your states voting. If that was me I would be quite frustated that my candintate didnt win.
Comments (14)
17 Sep 2020
An excellent summary here, sincere_atom! And you have opened up an interesting discussion about whether the electoral system in America is fair too. You say that you "don't think the system is fair". If anything could be done, how would you suggest the system could be improved?
17 Sep 2020
I really think some of these American rules are unfair don’t you?
17 Sep 2020
I love your points. I agree and don't find it fair, thankyou for spreading the word. - Involved_Grapefruit
18 Sep 2020
I also think that is unfair because you have to be 35 years old and have to be born in America!!🐲
18 Sep 2020
I think that is way to complicated, they should just make the candidate with the most votes win.
19 Sep 2020
I really think some of these American rules are unfair don’t you?
Why do you think the rules are unfair, fascinating_temperature? What rules would you introduce instead?
23 Sep 2020
A election is a place we’re u can vote
24 Sep 2020
I really think this is unfair because if people have already got there hopes up for electing and now this has let them down there really gonna be sad and the fact that you haft to be over 35 is not fair I think you should be 20 years and over so that's my opinion.
24 Sep 2020
I think that you should be 35 years and over is not fair because if you are a age like an age 19 and you want to elect for president you will haft to wait a long time and electing could be over so this really is not fair
25 Sep 2020
I think it’s fairer to add up the total number of individual votes per candidate than the system they use.
25 Sep 2020
I don’t honestly think that some of America rules are quite unfair
30 Sep 2020
it is not fair.
02 Oct 2020
Amazing post
I agree with you and I think we should elect Biden because he needs a chance but trump has said some very silly things over the past four years
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