While only the United States and Burundi use the Electoral College method to elect their Presidents and Vice Presidents, there are similar systems to the Electoral College being used by other countries as well. These similar systems are used by Estonia, India, France, the Republic of Ireland, Kazakhstan, Madagascar, Pakistan, Trinidad, Tobago and Vanuatu. The cities Macau and Hong Kong within China use an election committee to elect certain officials. The British Labor Party uses a similar system to elect it's officials as well.
The Electoral College is used in the United States to determine the outcome of presidential elections.
the popular vote is by everybody. the electoral vote is by electoral colleges, which not everyone is in
The popular vote is when the people vote for the president. in actuallity the people don't elect the president. the electorial college do. they win states with the popular vote then the delegates from those states vote for the candidate their state chooses.
No, Oklahoma does not allocate its electoral votes as a block. Oklahoma uses a winner-takes-all system, meaning that the candidate who receives the majority of the popular vote in the state wins all of Oklahoma's electoral votes.
Alternative Vote electoral system
The popular vote in each state selects the electors who will vote in the Electoral College. The electors are elected by popular vote in each state and each candidate for elector swears in advance whom he will vote for.
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Yes. Each electoral vote in the constituency will be important.
Electoral vote! Evidently the popular vote doesn't count since Gore won the popular vote.
It Means that the Electoral College approves the vote
Electoral.
Every vote counts equally. The popular vote determines which slate of electors will be allowed to cast the electoral votes for that state.
Hoover won 84% of the electoral vote in 1928 and 11% in 1932.