Electoral College’s purposes include giving power to small states and to give people the indirect power to elect the president‚ so that the wrong candidate would not win the election. However‚ many people contemplate whether the Electoral College should still exist. One major reason why includes the most recent presidential election. Most people know that the candidate who won the popular vote by about three million votes did not become president. As a result‚ the creation of petitions to abolish the
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BARANGAY ONLINE VOTING SYSTEM INTRODUCTION Computerized election is defined as vote counting process using electronic devices such as computers. It is a proven fact that during Philippine elections a lot of comments occur. The kind of election here in the Philippines is very different from the others. We were astonished to the US presidential election last year which Barack Obama won. It was an astonishing event that the world has ever seen. But‚ what made us astonished is that it took
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selection vary substantially across the United States. Though each state has a unique set of guidelines governing how they fill their state and local judiciaries‚ there are five main methods. The five main methods are partisan elections‚ nonpartisan elections‚ legislative elections‚ Gubernational appointment‚ and assisted appointment. There are five basic methods of judicial selection‚ but it is important to note that no two states use exactly the same selection method. In many states‚ more than
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Elections 1954 were held in March 1954 under the India Act of 1935‚ and on the basis of universal adult franchise. The contesting parties in the elections were the ruling muslim league and a five-party alliance called united front. The major partners of the Front were the Awami Muslim League led by Maulana abdul hamid khan bhasani‚ the krishak sramik party by ak fazlul huq‚ Nezam-e-Islam led by Maulana Atahar Ali‚ and Ganatantri Dal led by haji mohammad danesh. In the elections held from 8 to
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be a new elected a new president in the United States of America. The two candidates were Rutherford B. Hayes as a republican and Samuel J. Tilden as a democrat. This election was known as one of the most controversial elections in the history of America do to the end results of the new elected president. The Presidential election of 1876 was close between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden. Hayes electoral vote was 185 and Tilden’s electoral vote was 184. But Tilden had won the popular vote
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first glance the statistics are startling. The percentage of people that voted in 2001 was an astonishing record low of 59%‚ down over 10% from the previous election in 1997. Comparing both of these results to a 83.9 voting percentage of 1950‚ shows a dramatic change in the value the British people place in their vote. The two recent elections however in 2005 and 2010 have bucked this trend‚ achieving percentages of 61.5 and 65 giving the impression that voting is on the rise. But with only these
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volatile of dinnertime conversation topics‚ politics and elections take to the forefront of our daily lives in major fashion once every four years. This is of course when many Americans head to the polls to cast their votes for who they want to see in the oval office. Months‚ in fact almost a year‚ of campaigning culminates on that Tuesday evening in November as the fate of a nation is decided. However few people fully understand just how that election process works. We have all heard of the electoral
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Bernie and Hillary Our political leaders have allowed us the opportunities to feel untied as a country. Each elections is a heart racing battle with one thing in mind: to win. Yet‚ there are few elections that have us on the edge of our seats quite like the presidential election of 2016. In this year we observed potential leaders such as Ted Cruz‚ Marco Rubio‚ and Jill Stein. But the clash between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton is one to be remembered. Their divergent backgrounds transformed
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professionalism (high school government elections‚ mayoral elections‚ even governor elections) is by counting the votes and the candidate with the most‚ wins. However‚ the Electoral College‚ the method in which we choose the most important position‚ President‚ is an indirect way of voting. This means that when Americans go to the poll every 4 years to vote for our President‚ their direct votes is not what determines the outcome. The very make up of our election system is flawed. Every state has electoral
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its U.S. Senators (always 2) plus the number of its U.S. Representatives‚ but this number could vary from decade to decade because each population in states will increase. This first design was built to satisfy the small and large states during elections through congress. The choosing of electors would come from the choice of the individual State legislatures‚ thereby pacifying States suspicious of a central national government.The first design can be seen as a very elaborate design‚ but yet clever
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