Are You Educated Enough To Vote?  

What does the UK do? I know that some countries have stopped using the process of their system of an electoral college.

Our nation is split into things called constituencies(spelling)
Then each party puts forward a candidate in which ever constituency they choose
The electorate vote
The candidate in each constituency with the most votes win
The party with the most elected members forms the government
Simple,straightforward,easy,
Mind you,I think proportional representation would be fairer,but then the whole process would have to be restructured,
Our way works,which ever party gets the most members of Parliament voted in wins

Sounds like by American standards it would be expensive lol

I think not,
I understand that your 2 main parties spend an awful lot running campaigns in each state.
I reckon we spend peanuts in comparism

Ok X I see your point but would you explain to be how a small state with 2 electoral votes can out weight the larger states with say 54 electoral votes? Why should a candidate waste time in a smaller state when they could just work over the bigger states and a few middle ground states? Ok lets just say this to give a better example: say a candidate takes- California, New York, Texas, Ohio, PA, and a few other middle ground states (for the sake of this example lets take out the red/blue factor of each state) how could the smaller states even matter?

EXAXCTLY my point. 'Iddle states like mine (though new hampshire is considered signifigant symbolicly) get lost in the wash.

And it still doesn't sway you away from the Electoral College system? If I remember correctly isn't your state one of the states that split their Electoral College votes? Sorry not good with the little East coast states.

I believe we are an all votes cast state actualy.

If you removed the electoral college they wouldn't bother as much with California and Texas. Those states are massive and require a lot of campaigning and traveling. Remove the electoral college and all efforts will be focused on New York, New Jersey, and the other northeast states with the largest concentration of voters. Larger states with lower density that require more work will be deemed a lower priority.

Thanks for the map but I don't really know how acurate it really is because according to the map Ohio, the state that I live in, shows very little Republican counties and yet over the years Republicans have ruled the majority of the time. Besides the fact that when if the weather is not great during election day "urban area dwellers" usually have an easier time getting to the voting polls than the "non city dwellers" do, well at least in areas that are in Ohio.

Red is /Republican and Blue is Democratic. You will see that the Blue is around Cleveland and I think Columbus.

I think Ohio is another California lol We vote all across the board. I can't tell if that is actually Cleveland in the Eastern area the counties are much too small. The little blue spot looks like it is either Columbus or maybe an outlaying county. Which both Cleveland and Columbus are big "urban" areas.

When the Electoral College voted in the election of 1800 there was a tie. The election was then thrown into the House of Representatives, leaving them to vote on who would become president. This voting lasted over a month before the president could be determined. The president did not take office until March and most generally they take office in January. The next occasion that the Electoral College came into question was the election was in 1824 the House again voted on the president, after the election none of the candidates had the majority of the Electoral College votes to win. On Election Day in 1888 Cleveland won the popular vote yet Harrison won the presidency, because he won the electoral votes. The election of 1888 was very upsetting to many American people because Cleveland had such a large margin of votes over Harrison. Then of course in the 2000 election Al Gore won the popular vote and George W. Bush won the Electoral College, and became the president. The state of Florida was disputed and a recount of the votes started.

Those are all valid examples, except as I stated, 1824 was different. Andrew Jackson won BOTH the popular vote and the electoral college.

I know I screwed up I should have referred to the election of 1876, S. Tilden won the popular vote and Hayes won the electoral vote (1 vote) even though Tilden won by over 200,000 popular votes.

I didn't know that about Denmark. It sounds like the president seems to have a lot in common with American politicans; lot of talk and no action. Here in America citizens are able to vote, smoke and if the draft is reinstate ever be drafted but cannot drink alcohol. Hopefully your president will find himself out of office soon and you will get a good one.

saw the note on alchohol and had to comment, a few local NH legislators were talking about bringing the drinking age in the state back down to 19. DOn't think I agrea with that, especialy after seeing the conduct of even the 21 year olds in the bar here in town, but, I would be glad at least to see us tell the federal govt to stuff their highway funds and exercise our own control over it.

Well it must be admitted that is a stupid law if we have the draft, it's like telling the kids it is ok to go off and die in war but you can't drink legally lol

I agree that it should be up to the states. I would say something differently but I'm not steering off this topic and leaving myself open to my stalker lol

LOL!
It is up to the states zeph, there is no national drinking age. the federal government a while ago started threatening to withhold highway funding as black mail to get the states to raise their drinking ages. Vermont and new hampshire were the last in the union to go up to 21 if I'm not mistaken. New hampshire changed to 21 right before I turned 18 and vermont went from 19 to 21 a month after I turned 19, so I was grandfathered in, pertty convenient since I live a 10 minuet walk and 2 minute swim to vermont.

interesting

I know that it is up to the states silly but they are too afraid to lose their federal funding for roads, streets, highway, county roads ect lol If they would stand up and say forget you we don't want to take your federal funding for road work and we are lowering our drinking age. But, ok since you brought it up I'm going there. lol They could just lower the drinking age allow federal funding to be cut then hire a lobbiest to get them earmarks.

Oh, you dared to go with the interesting comment? lmao

LOL!
Yes, I dropped the "I" bomb
seriously though, our hard liquer is stae sold, it was hypothesized that when if we lowered the drinking age, it may just expand liquer revenue enough to make up for the loss of federal funds. seemed a stretch to me but I supose when you cout sales from out of state in the formula it becomes more plausable....lol...oh wouldn't the surrounding states SCREAM if we lowered it though.

True. But I have a question for you since you are international, how does it look to other countries that the US touts its democracy yet sometimes votes in the United States do not count? I personally look at it as a "do as I say not as I do" type standard.

this is happening also here in our country.
even the dead people can vote and your vote will goes
to other candidates.
that's normal and I don't want to waste much time for them
as long as I have done my part for the country which is to vote
for those candidates which for me is the best, then I was done
with my task. I'll just wait for the results.
But don't want to go on the street and join the rally.

I feel that the citizens of the United States are educated enough to make an informed decision about voting but in my opinion the Electoral College almost leaves a stigma about the voting system. If the Electoral College always went with the popular vote than it really wouldn't be an issue but the Electoral College doesn't always go with the popular vote.

The nice thing about registering is that when you move you have to reregister. I don't know if one can unregister, I would imagine you could call your local elections board and they would be able to tell you.

That's how some Americans feel when they vote and the person that they vote for wins but the Electoral College goes against their vote and elects the other candidate. But I'm sure that if the winner actually got the position things probably wouldn't change either.