USA VOTES 2020: INSIGHTFUL ANALYSIS ON HOW AMERICA ELECTS ITS PRESIDENT

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USA 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION - Donald Trump and Joe Biden Face Off
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The United States of America’s 2020 presidential election is scheduled for Tuesday, November 3, 2020 and the whole world is highly expectant as well as anxious to know who would emerge the president of the world’s most powerful country.

It will be the 59th quadrennial presidential election. Voters will select presidential electors who in turn will vote on December 14, 2020, to either elect a new president and vice president or reelect the incumbents Donald Trump and Mike Pence respectively.

USA Presidential Candidates: Trump and Biden
USA Presidential Candidates: Trump and Biden

As the series of presidential primary elections and caucuses were held from February to August 2020, it will be imperative to give an insightful analysis of the due process required before the winner of the presidency election is declared.

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Unlike in many other countries, the US president and vice president are not directly elected by citizens. Instead, they are chosen by “electors” through an “Electoral College”. In this system, it is possible for a candidate to win the popular vote and still lose out on the presidency.

Contrary to popular belief, American voters do not actually elect their president. When citizens go to polls, they just vote for “electors”. These electors then go on to choose between presidential candidates.

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USA ELECTORAL COLLEGE
USA ELECTORAL COLLEGE

There are five main steps to electing a USA President:

  1. Primaries and Caucuses
  2. National Conventions
  3. Election Campaigning
  4. General Election
  5. Electoral College

Forty-eight states, plus the District of Columbia, have a winner-takes-all approach to their Electoral College votes. This means that on election day whoever between Joe Biden and Donald Trump wins the popular vote by even a single vote, wins all of the sate’s electoral votes.

It therefore does not matter by how many votes the candidates win in each state, as long as they win more than the next person.

Trump and Biden Presidential Debate Debate
Trump and Biden Presidential Debate Debate

In the US Election process, voters merely indicate a preference, but the task of actually electing the president falls to these 538 individual electors to the US Electoral College.

It is possible for candidates to be the most popular candidate among voters and still fail to win enough states to gain majority electoral votes.

In practice, electors almost always vote for the candidate who wins the popular vote.

Biden Campaign
Biden Campaign

If an elector votes against their state’s presidential pick, they become “faithless”. This happened in the 2016 race when seven electoral college votes were cast this way, but the results weren’t affected by the faithless electors.

In 2016, Donald Trump had almost three million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton, but won the presidency because the electoral college gave him a majority.

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Trump Campagin

This year, Election Day falls on November 3. Members of the electoral college will then formally meet and vote on December 14, and their votes will be counted, and the winner announced on January 6, 2021.

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  1. The men who wrote the US constitution provided that each state legislature should determine how the electors were chosen. The state is not required by the constitution go even have a vote by the people to show a preference ir chose the electors. The state legislatures could do that without a vote. And I believe some did have during the first few years if the republic. Now the tradition us to have a public vote. Majority of citizens want a direct vote for the president by the people but the constitution is difficult to amend. It cannot be amended by a simple majority vote of congress or the people.

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