Winning despite a difference of millions of votes less .. Who is the electorate in the United States?

His voter is pro-Trump.

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On the night of November 8, 2016, with the word "beautiful," Donald Trump, a junior in politics, described his surprising victory over his rival Hillary Clinton in the presidential election.

The details of the win are not that clear.

The former Secretary of State got nearly three million more votes than her Republican rival.

But with his narrow victory in crucial states, Trump crossed the threshold of 270 votes needed by the electoral college to win the White House seat.

With the maturity of November 3 approaching, during which he faces Democrat Joe Biden, the rules of this vague system, albeit outdated by some, are returning to the fore.

What is the need for an electoral body?

The 538 members of the Electoral College meet in their state capitals once every four years after the presidential elections to determine the winner.

A presidential candidate must obtain the absolute majority of the Commission’s votes, or 270 out of 538 votes, to win.

This system dates back to the Constitution of 1787, which defines the rules for presidential elections by indirect universal suffrage in one round.

The founding fathers of the United States saw in this a compromise between the election of a president by direct universal suffrage and his election by Congress according to a system they considered undemocratic.

Over the decades, hundreds of proposals for amendments or the abolition of the electoral college were submitted to Congress, but none of them passed.

The debate is back again with Trump's victory.

And if the 2020 race is a cause for concern, then there will definitely be renewed talk about the electorate.

Who are the top 538 voters?

Most of them are elected officials or party officials, but their names do not appear on the ballot papers, and their identities are often unknown to voters.

Each state has the same number of electors as its representatives in the House of Representatives (according to the state's population) and in the Senate (two for each state, regardless of size).

California, for example, has 55 senior electors, and Texas has 38. The less populated states such as Alaska, Delaware, Vermont and Wyoming each have three senior electors.

The constitution gives states the freedom to decide how to choose the major electors.

In all states except for Nebraska and Maine, the candidate who wins the most votes gets the votes of all the major electors.

Controversial institution

In November 2016 Trump won 306 senior voters.

Millions of disaffected Americans signed a petition calling on top Republican voters to block it.

But the efforts were mostly unsuccessful, because only two members of Texas adhered to the invitation, leaving Trump with 304 votes.

Republicans denounced the move as a miserable attempt by activists, refusing to accept defeat.

The exceptional situation in 2016 of losing the popular vote and despite that winning the elections, was not unprecedented.

Five former presidents arrived at the White House this way.

The first was John Quincy Adams in 1824 against Andrew Jackson.

Not long ago, the 2000 elections saw great confusion between George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore.

Gore won by 500,000 votes over Bush at the national level, but when Bush won the Florida vote, the total number of votes for the electorate rose to 271, which decided the presidency in his favor.

Real voting process or just a formality?

Nothing in the US Constitution compels the major electorate to vote in one direction or another.

If some states force them to respect the results of the popular vote and refrain from doing so, the "dishonest" can be punished with a fine.

But in 2020 the Supreme Court ruled that states can punish major voters who abstain from voting, by creating laws that compel them to vote based on the outcome of the popular vote in that state.

Between 1796 and 2016, 180 major voters cast their votes other than the presidential candidate or his running mate for the state.

But voters who rejected the voting results never affected the final outcome of the next president's identity.

Date of the meeting of the Electoral Commission

Their state's top electors meet on December 14th to choose a president and vice president.

And that date was set by US law, which states that "they meet and vote on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December."

On January 6, 2021, Congress is declared winner of the presidency and takes the oath of office on January 20.

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