Mechanism of the US presidential election November 4, 7:52

The US presidential election is elected by electors who are elected as a result of voters' votes in each state.

Americans over the age of 18 can vote, but they must be registered as voters with the Election Commission in their place of residence before they can actually vote.



Winning or losing the presidential election is not determined by the number of votes cast by voters, but by the total number of electors each candidate gets.



Electors are represented by voters, with a total of 538 people nationwide, but they are allotted to each state according to their population, and each candidate competes for this elector on a state-by-state basis.



However, 48 of the 50 states in the United States and the capital, Washington, have adopted a method in which the winners take over the electors assigned to those states, rather than sharing them according to the voting results.



As a result, candidates can win all electors if they have at least one vote cast by voters in the state.



California, for example, has the highest number of electors in the United States at 55, but all 55 candidates have the highest number of votes, regardless of whether voters have tens of thousands or hundreds of votes. Will be earned.

Six fierce battle states that divide the victory and defeat

In the U.S. presidential election, candidates for the two major parties, the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, are effectively competing, but looking at the trends so far in each state, the states with a strong Republican Party, the states with a strong Democratic Party, and the states with strong approval ratings It is divided into.



For this reason, which one controls the so-called fierce battle state, which has a strong approval rating, directly affects the election results.



In this case, six states, Pennsylvania, Florida, North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona, are attracting attention as fierce battle states, but all adopt the winner-take-all method, and in these states President Trump, before Biden Which of the Vice Presidents wins is expected to determine the outcome of the election.



As a result of this electoral winner-take-all method, even if the number of voters in the United States is high, the number of electors may be small, and in the last election four years ago, Democratic Party Clinton However, although the number of votes obtained in the United States was more than 2 million, the number of electors was 74 more than Mr. Trump, who won the fierce battle states one after another, and Mr. Trump was elected.