No candidate loses until the ballots are counted. How can you be certain that a candidate is a "losing candidate" before the election is held?
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A Candidate.
I would hope so and I believe many would vote for the most qualified candidate, despite their religious preference. Sadly, however, there will always be people who would vote for someone less-qualified because of a person's religion.
When only one person is nominated, a vote is unnecessary.
It is fair that people of a congressional district might elect a candidate then have the House of Representatives vote not to seat that person.
A renegade elector is a member of the Electoral College who casts a vote for a person other than the one he or she has promised to vote for. If you vote for President, you don't vote for the presidential candidate, you vote for an elector who has pledged that he or she will vote for that candidate. This pledge is not legally binding. Any elector may vote for any candidate regardless of his/her pledge. The Electoral College was set up this way becaue the framers of the Constitution did not fully trust the general electorate. This is because more and more voters were coming from unpropertied classes, unlike the Framers. They feared the possibility that a popular vote might elect a person who threatened their property interests. At the time it was expected that electors would only be persons with property interests. Thus, if a president who theatened property interests were elected by the general public, it was expected that that person would vote for the more "responsible" candidate instead and prevent that person from becoming president.
an independent voter
At 18 a person get its identity card
In Canada, Aboriginal people gained the right to vote without losing their status in 1960. Before then, if an Aboriginal person wanted to vote, they would have to forfeit their status as an Aboriginal.
president-elect is what you would call such a person, assuming they received a majority of the electoral vote. If nobody has an majority, I can not think of any special name for the person who received the plurality.
If a person sustains a vote it means that they have given their support to the candidate. This is done by checking the box on the ballot form.
A candidate could be elected by having a majority of the Electoral votes, but losing the popular vote. And (at one time) Electors were not bound to vote the same way as the majority in their state had voted.