dollarsplenty:
Electoral College is annti democracy, it suppresses the peoples will

AdaugoChisom:
Is good but senators from Northern Nigeria is than senators from South

Zontage:
United States Electoral College Explained

As prescribed in the U.S. Constitution, American presidents are elected not directly by the people, but by the people's electors. The Electoral College was created by the framers of the U.S. Constitution as an alternative to electing the president by popular vote or by Congress. If it were by popular vote or who gets the most votes, Hillary Clinton would have won in 2016 and Joe Biden would have been declared winner by now. Biden has also received the most votes of any president in American history. Whomever reaches the 270 electoral votes will be officially declared winner. In this system, Trump still has a chance of winning.

The United States Electoral College is a name used to describe the official 538 Presidential electors who come together every four years during the presidential election to give their official votes for President and Vice President of the United States.The Constitution leaves states to decide how electors will vote. It began In 1804, 12th Amendment to the Constitution made sure that electors designate their votes for president and vice president, but the 12th Amendment leaves in place a tie breaking system established by the Constitution by which the House of Representatives breaks a tie on presidential electoral votes and the Senate.

The election of the president of the United States is a two-step process. First, voters cast ballots on Election Day in each state. In nearly every state, the candidate who gets the most votes wins the "electoral votes" for that state, and gets that number of voters (or "electors" in the "Electoral College." In the Electoral College system, each state gets a certain number of electors based on its total number of representatives in Congress. Each elector casts one electoral vote following the general election; there are a total of 538 electoral votes. The candidate that gets more than half (270) wins the election.

What happens if no candidate gets enough electoral votes?Pursuant to the 12th Amendment, the House of Representatives is required to go into session immediately after the counting of the electoral votes to vote for president if no candidate for the office receives a majority of the electoral votes. ... The House continues balloting until it elects a president.

Who sits on the Electoral College? The president and vice president of the United States are elected by the Electoral College, which consists of 538 electors from the fifty states and Washington, D.C. Electors are selected state-by-state, as determined by the laws of each state.

Addendum: Electoral College is a system born of compromise deeply rooted in America's slavery foundation. I will explain this in my subsequent post.

Thank you.

Source: Maria Ude Nwachi

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2862531247403118&id=100009388131283

dollarsplenty:
Electoral College is annti democracy, it suppresses the peoples will

AmazingELixir:


Just to win California, Florida and Texas you don land 100 plus electoral votes.

It means with just 11 states out of 50 a candidate can win the US presidential election.

Jaykrown:
But please, I have a question to ask.. If the electoral college has the final say to elect the president, then, what’s the essence of people going out to vote when their votes will not determine who wins at end of the day? Can’t they just use the votes of 538 electoral college members and save people the stress, or is there something am missing?

byrron:


There is nothing democratic about the electoral college system where your vote only chooses those that will now vote on who becomes the president.

Notatribalist:
So what's the need for everybody to go out and vote?

shadeyinka:

I haven't justified the application of the American electoral college. I have only justified it's purpose in selection of a leader.

The objective question is:
Is the majority always right?

SmartPolician:
Nigeria loves adopting all the Western bullshit

But they should never bring this madness to Nigeria

People must vote to determine their leaders, not some super important personalities that are not up to 600 deciding the fate of 300 million people

backnbeta:
Not good for the people

UyaiIncomparabl:


Face your carcass of a country and stop rooting passionately for a country that has no ties with you.

mvem:
this shows you don't understand it at all...no 600 is deciding the fate of America. Pls understand it well

onlyfacts:


The electoral college works on a state level and its a winner takes all kind of system. Take for example California, it has 55 electoral College votes. If a republican gets the highest number of votes in California, it means the electoral college of California will give all their electoral votes to the Republican presidential candidate which is 55. The Democratic candidate will only take the votes casts for him but nothing from the electoral college.

So in this case above it is still the votes of the people that the electoral college works on.

Overall a presidential candidate can still win the highest number of votes and lose at the electoral college. How is this possible?

There are 52 states in the US, and all this states have different populations and different electoral college votes assigned to them. It's just like Nigeria, we have 36 states but they don't have the same population. Lagos, Kano, rivers etc have higher populations compared to the others, win this state with a great margin and you win the election in Nigeria.

In America the objective is almost similar, win the states with the most electoral college votes by winning majority of the votes in that state. Even if those states are 22 states and combined they have electoral college votes of 270 which is needed to win the presidential election, it is more important than winning remaining 26 states that have electoral college votes combined less than 270.

Now how each states are assigned electoral college votes is fair, so cheating is out of it. Each candidate knows what has to be done to get to 270 before election, and if they fail to meet it it's their fault.

Sunisonflex39:
Is it only me that thinks that this electoral college setting is easy vote buying.. A president can walk up to a governor or so and pay him so and so dollars to vote for him.. At least this one will be easier than going over to the citizens to share tradermoni farmermoni feedingmoni and all sort of nonsense moni we have here in Nigeria..

backbone503:


If you had the slightest understanding of how powerful and influential the POTUS is or can be, you probably wouldn't have spewed this trash. Trump, for example, has so far pushed policies that have negatively affected Nigeria and many other underdeveloped and developing countries. Nemesis simply has caught up with him.

leicestercamper:
Useless explanation from a Nigerian local champion- Maria Ude.

Electoral college is a form of allocation of numbers backed by the constitution to each state in America usually determined by the resident state population. Some states have 3, 4, 10, 20, 30, etc. depending on the residency population.

Like California has the highest electoral votes, followed by Texas. Politically, some states are more important to political parties than others.

For instance, Wyoming, DC, Delaware, North & South Carolina have the least electoral votes, so politically speaking an American politician gives more attention to California, Texas and other states with high electoral votes, than states with least electoral votes.

See the way the electoral votes are classified.

onlyfacts:


Wrong, it isn't. The electoral college works on a state level and its a winner takes all kind of system. Take for example California, it has 55 electoral College votes. If a republican gets the highest number of votes in California, it means the electoral college of California will give all their electoral votes to the Republican presidential candidate which is 55. The Democratic candidate will only take the votes casts for him but nothing from the electoral college.

So in this case above it is still the votes of the people that the electoral college works on.

Overall a presidential candidate can still win the highest number of votes and lose at the electoral college. How is this possible?

There are 52 states in the US, and all this states have different populations and different electoral college votes assigned to them. It's just like Nigeria, we have 36 states but they don't have the same population. Lagos, Kano, rivers etc have higher populations compared to the others, win this state with a great margin and you win the election in Nigeria.

In America the objective is almost similar, win the states with the most electoral college votes by winning majority of the votes in that state. Even if those states are 22 states and combined they have electoral college votes of 270 which is needed to win the presidential election, it is more important than winning remaining 26 states that have electoral college votes combined less than 270.

Now how each states are assigned electoral college votes is fair, so cheating is out of it. Each candidate knows what has to be done to get to 270 before election, and if they fail to meet it it's their fault.

ventuek:
This is a case of minority deciding for majority....I wonder what led to such system.

wunmi590:




Trump condemned mail voting, and all sought, forgetting that was part of what made him won win his first election .

byrron:


For your information, I voted in this election and know more than enough about the electoral college and how it works here which is why I have been up all night just waiting to get the final results from Philadelphia so I can be rest assured that this divider in chief won't be in the WH come January 3 2021 but that still doesn't erase the fact the electoral college system is now primitive and the calls for it to be abolished here is getting louder.

Coldie:
Nigeria needs to copy this system.

With electoral college if u like have a population of 10m your state voting power is almost same with a state with a population of 3million

byrron:


All northern states will have a minimum of 50 electoral college members while the other regions will have 10, 15 and 18 electoral college member's which will give the northern states the ability to decide who becomes the president of Nigeria.

The electoral college is an undemocratic antiquated system were the votes of the people doesn’t elect the president but choses those that goes on to elect the president.

Just imagine what quota system has done to Nigeria then imagine what having an electoral college will be like in Nigeria.[/i]

INSTANTCASH345:
Thanks Mrs Maria Ude, but I already knew this long time ago. I am no kid and I studied govt in college.

All I wanted to hear from you is how can a democratically elected govt try to truncate another electoral process just as a result of a massive in-mailed votes coming in after the election day which he himself had asked his supporters not to use.

Tell us how long the process will b suspended! I have been checking google for the past 1 day now and everything remains stagnant.

Up to the Americans here on NL to answer,thanks.

INSTANTCASH345:
Thanks Mrs Maria Ude, but I already knew this long time ago. I am no kid and I studied govt in college.

All I wanted to hear from you is how can a democratically elected govt try to truncate another electoral process just as a result of a massive in-mailed votes coming in after the election day which he himself had asked his supporters not to use.

Tell us how long the process will b suspended! I have been checking google for the past 1 day now and everything remains stagnant.

Up to the Americans here on NL to answer,thanks.

agabusta:


No sir. Read again to understand.

States with high population will still have higher electoral college. Though their influence will reduce a bit.

For example, if we are to use this system in Nigeria, Kano will have 27 electors while Ebonyi will have 9 electors.

It would make the elections too tensed at the states. As the person who wins a state will take all the electors for that state.

agabusta:


No sir. Read again to understand.

States with high population will still have higher electoral college. Though their influence will reduce a bit.

For example, if we are to use this system in Nigeria, Kano will have 27 electors while Ebonyi will have 9 electors.

It would make the elections too tensed at the states. As the person who wins a state will take all the electors for that state.

agabusta:


No sir. Read again to understand.

States with high population will still have higher electoral college. Though their influence will reduce a bit.

For example, if we are to use this system in Nigeria, Kano will have 27 electors while Ebonyi will have 9 electors.

It would make the elections too tensed at the states. As the person who wins a state will take all the electors for that state.

Sunisonflex39:
Is it only me that thinks that this electoral college setting is easy vote buying.. A president can walk up to a governor or so and pay him so and so dollars to vote for him.. At least this one will be easier than going over to the citizens to share tradermoni farmermoni feedingmoni and all sort of nonsense moni we have here in Nigeria..

ebenezer202l:
either you're a democrat satanist or an Islamic terrorist

yahmohy27:

I learned he might go to jail for tax evasion.
But now he's still enjoying immunity

Cholls:
my brother this is not true. It's like you don't know how College system of voting work.

agabusta:


The US Presidential election is by what 'they' call an Electoral College and not solely through the popular votes.

Each state has electors which is arrived at by adding the number of their Representatives in the Senate and the House of Rep. An exception is their capital DC, which has 3 electors. The total number of electors is 538.

Now ideally, the popular winner of a state takes all the electors for that state except for two states which has a separate rule. A number of posts on this thread already mentioned that.

The formal process where the 538 electors cast their votes takes place next month.

But irrespective of that, if the popular winner of the different states are known/declared, it is easy to deduce the overall winner of the electoral college, even though they are yet to formally cast their vote since electors in 48 states (out of 50) are to vote for the winner of their states