of course they can
That has always been false; there was not a U. S. Presidential election in 2002. The most recent U. S. Presidential election before 2012 was in 2008.
Primary elections and caucuses and the Democratic and Republican Presidential conventions
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Ballots were counted in the presidential election by hand, using paper ballots before computers. The term so called document ballot voting system which is pointed as how ballots were counted before computers.
Richard Nixon
Yes, you can still vote in the presidential election even if you did not vote in the Montana primary election. Primary elections and general elections are separate, and not voting in the primary does not disqualify you from voting in the general election.
A candidate can drop from the race at any time.
In the U.S. presidential election of 1872, Horace Greeley, the Democratic Party Presidential Nominee, died 24 days after the casting of the popular votes and 17 days before the casting of the electoral votes. If he had survived the election, based on the November election results, even with 100% of the votes from each of the states he won he would have gotten a total of only 18.7% of the votes.
Presidential primaries are party elections and caucuses to determine who the presidential nominee will be for each political party. They are held between January and June before the general election in November.
Yes, if you have registered in time according to your state's laws. All states have some kind of voter registration deadline. If your state's deadline is before your birthday, you can usually register before hand, because you "are or will be 18 years of age or older on or before the election day" or some such provision. The election day is November 4th.
He lost 8 prior elections, before winning the Presidential election in 1860. He never lost any Presidential election, and he ran twice, and was elected twice, as President.