Report from Anne Tonight, Stephen attempted to outline some of the major logistics of an American election, He has an abiding interest in American, British and Australian history. There are two essential facts that one needs to understand about an election in the USA:- 1. Voters vote on the first Tuesday in November every four years (in person). They can also vote absentee or as an early vote. 2. Voters do not elect the President, but instead are voting for Presidential Electors in the Electoral College. Originally, when voting, the names of the Presidential Electors were on the ballet. As time has moved on, Presidential candidates names were on the ballet. Every state in the USA has a different rule for Presidential electors. The two major parties in the USA ( Republican and Democrat) selects them six weeks in advance of the election. On 17th December, a simultaneous meeting takes place, of the people whose party have the control of the state. At that meeting, the President and Vice-President are selected. On the sixth of January, the electoral college announces the vote count in the Senate. Interestingly, it is the current Vice-President, Kamala Harris, a sitting Senator, who announces the Presidential count. What is also intriguing is that between eight and twelve states which determine the ultimate result of the vote count. The major takeout of this detailed presentation was that the system of voting in the USA is complex and dynamic in the way it is implemented. Without an equivalent of an Electoral Commission, a largely state-based model is activated. |
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