How the fuck american voting sistem works...

How the fuck american voting sistem works?I heard that doesn't win the candidate with the most votes but the one with more states, is that true? explain pls

Everybody votes, then it doesn't matter cause the electoral collages actually choose.

did that help Paco?

Each state is worth a different amount of votes based on population whoever has the most wins

That's Italy, not Mexico genius

look up the erectoral college

i'm not a mexican, please use glasses jhon

The United States uses the dumbest electoral system every devised. I understand the historical reasons for it, but in the modern world it is very out-of-date. Every country should use proportionate representation with an instant-runoff system.

nearly every state has "winner takes it all" system with elector numbers based on population density. To become president you need 270 electors.
Winner takes it all system has the possibility of getting more votes, but losing elections.

>sistem
Mexican intellectual

same thing.
who cares.

What does the popular vote even DO? Is it completely meaningless? Then why is it even a thing?

In half the states, people vote. The most popular candidate wins the entire state.

In the other half of the country, people vote for no reason 'cause the electoral college just picks for them. Usually, whichever candidate paid them more.

Every state is worth a different number of points.

So depending where you live, your vote carries different weight. 75% of the time, it means nothing.

each state is worth a certain number of points. whoever wins that particular state gets all of that states points. whoever gets to 270 points first wins.

That states points aren't determined by popular vote, but by a single person chosen to represent the state who usually just votes with whoever won the popular vote in that state, but doesn't have to.

so basically none of our votes matter

>mexican
>britbong education

They don't even vote for their president directly, electors do it.

And electors can do whatever the fuck they want. Legally nobody can force them to vote a particular candidate.

Most states have the popular vote decide where all their electoral votes go.

This is after the purely Electoral system, where Electors would vote for two candidates and whoever got the most would be president and whoever got second-most would be VP, threw up a President and Vice-President from opposing political parties.

Why ohio is always so critical?

It comes from the way that the country was founded. Originally, there was much more sectionalism and people didn't identify with the nation as a whole as much as their individual states.

The US was seen as more of a collection of states than a solid country. It was decided, then, that it would make more sense for representatives from each state to vote in the presidency rather than a straight popular vote.

The result today is individual states having their own votes for the presidency (usually winner-takes-all), which are then put against the votes of other states. The votes are then tallied up and the winner is found.

>Feet and inches instead of meters
>Pounds and stones instead of kg
>Fahrenheit instead of Celsius
>Electoral college instead of real votes

Jesus christ i'm not mexican
Btw if you can understand it's fine for me

because only like 10 states actually change from republican to democrat and most just vote the same thing over and over. Ohio is one of those 10 states that can go either way and happens to be worth a decent chunk of points, so politicians want to win it

Each state has a certain amount of electoral votes based on it's population.

The citizens of that state vote to decide who those electoral votes go to

Whoever has 50%+ electoral votes wins

Shut the fuck up horizontal upside down France.

It's true. Bush Jr. lost the popular vote but won by electoral votes I.e. won more states.

Each state gets a number electoral votes based on its number of congressmen and senators. While one of those is based on population the other is the same for every state, 2.

So sparsely populated or little states like those in New England get much more actual voting power per person than say Texas or California.

It's a vestigial construct left over from the founding where small states feared they would be completely overruled by big states.

Basically, the majority can sometimes go fuck themselves because they didn't win that *specific* state and lost by about 100k, while outvoting the other party by a million. Happens once every 3 or so elections - yes, democracy is basically ignored in third of the elections

In addition, 21 states allow what we call "faithless electors", electors who vote against the person whom their voters "voted for" (in Presidential elections, voters actually vote for the electors, not for the candidates who are actually on the ballot).

For example, let's say Trump's elector wins Texas. If for whatever reason the elector decides that Trump shouldn't get his 38 votes (for instance, if Trump publicly demanded human sacrifices in his name and a throne of blood and skulls today), he can decide not to vote for Trump, and instead give it to Hillary, Johnson, or Stein.

Faithless electors are a very rare phenomenon, and they have never swung an election. However, 29 states (as well as the District of Columbia) have laws on the books to punish them, although this has never happened before. A few other states, such as Michigan, don't penalize faithless electors outright, but do render their votes null and void (so if Hillary won Michigan, but her elector there decided to cast his lot in for Trump, Michigan's 16 votes vanish into the aether entirely).

wtf?
so if they're paid by hillary it's over?

That's a very arcane system.

>Vestigial