It's called the popular vote.
Votes cast by individual voters in the presidential election are their way of expressing their choice for the candidate they want to see become the next president. Each voter has the opportunity to select their preferred candidate by marking their ballot on Election Day or submitting it through mail-in or early voting methods. These individual votes are then tallied and used to determine the winner of the election.
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About 8,087,000 votes were cast in Texas in the 2008 presidential election.
A presidential election is one where citizens vote for the President. In this type of election, voters directly choose their preferred candidate for the position of President of their country. The candidate who receives the majority of the electoral votes or the popular votes (depending on the country's system) wins the election and becomes the President.
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counting the electoral votes that were cast in the presidential election
The Electoral College voters decide the President-Elect because their votes are the ones that count.Whoever wins the Electoral Vote in any US Presidential Election will win.
Wisconsin had 10 electoral votes in the 2008 Presidential election. They will also have 10 electoral votes in the 2012, 2016, and 2020 Presidential elections
A disadvantage of the presidential election could be that the person with the most popular votes could lose the election because he or she had less electoral votes.
Pennsylvania cast 6,013,272 votes in the 2008 presidential election, translating into 21 electoral votes which were cast for Barack Obama (D).
Pennsylvania had 21 electoral votes in the 2008 presidential election. These went to Barack Obama (D).
The presidential candidate who received the least votes in the South in the election of 1860 was John Bell.
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