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What is the US presidential election process?

What is the US presidential election process? by @IanMMcC Answer by Ian McCullough:

The answer to the Presidential election lies in Article II, Section 1 of the  Constitution of The United States of America, which I've excerpted at the end. It's an impressively straightforward read, but I'll give you my summary on the topic of Presidential elections.

There are two very important thing to understand about the political structure of the U.S.A.:

The states are the basic unit of governance in this country. It is the States that charter cities, municipalities, townships, and counties within their borders and it is the states that are united into a nation. States are also responsible for managing elections.

Despite endless talk on the news of Red States and Blue States and Republicans and Democrats, the U.S. Constitution makes no mention at all of Political Parties. They aren't forbidden, but they aren't stipulated either. The primary elections are processes whereby the parties select their nominees to be put on the General Election ballot. A person can run for President without belonging to a political party – although they have to meet the requirements set forward in the Constitution and abide by the election rules set by each State.

At the time of the writing of the Constitution, one of several big issues was balancing representation in Congress amongst the various states.

Some states have a lot of people

Some states have very few people

Some states are geographically large and have a lot of territory

Some states are geographically small and cover very little land.

This was settled by making Congress have two houses: the Senate and the House of Representatives. In the Senate, every state gets two representative. In the House of Representatives, each state receives a number of representatives relative to it's population as captured in the 10-year Census.

That brings us to Presidential elections.

In order to keep things balanced amongst the various states, each state is assigned a number of Electoral Votes. The number of electoral votes that any state gets = the number of Senators for that state (2) + the number of Representatives for that state.

For example, the State of California (state) has 53 Representatives in the House; when you add the two Senators, that gives California 55 Electoral Votes. The small state of Rhode Island (state) has only 2 Representatives in the House, so that state gets 4 electoral votes.

In the Presidential election, the residents of each State vote for which candidate shall receive that state's Electoral Votes. When the majority of people in California vote for a candidate, that Candidate gets all of the Electoral Votes* as provided for the State of California.

Whatever candidate wins the most electoral votes from the state-by-state elections becomes the Presidents of the United States.

It's probably best to stop there for now. I do have two notes to add, though:

The Electoral Votes actually correspond to people, known as Electors, that are picked by the winning candidate to cast an electoral vote. That's typically a formality – but it can come into play, as it did in 1876.

It's important to note that the States get to determine the how their electors are apportioned to candidates. Most of the states are "winner take all" – but Maine (state) and Nebraska (state) use the Congressional District Method where electoral votes are assigned based on winning the vote in specific congressional districts; the winner of the most votes statewide wins the two electoral votes associated with the Senators.

____________________ Constitution of The United States of America http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html

Article. II. Section. 1. The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows: Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector. The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such Majority, and have an equal Number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse by Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like Manner chuse the President. But in chusing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; A quorum for this purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President.

Addendum: see My Letter to My Lawmakers About Election Reform by Ian McCullough on Ian's Posts 

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