Electoral College Picks the President

While millions of Americans will cast ballots for president on November 4, their votes do not directly send one of the candidates to the White House. In this segment of How America Elects, VOA's Jeffrey Young explains that the selection of the president is actually done by the Electoral College.

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[infinity999ful]

@WPA82nd bullshit.BULLSHIT. YOUR VOTE DOESNT COUNT IN THIS SYSTEM. YOUR A SHEEP

[DenaInWyo]

I live in Wyoming. I'm tired of my vote being not even worth the gas it takes to drive to the polls. It is literally not worth my time. The electoral college is an antiquated system that needs to be abolished.

[rsims87]

@WPA82nd If there was no electoral college, no states would control anything... control would be in the hands of the collective individuals with everyone's vote counting.

[TheEpoxyExpert]

@teddsman So what. who cares about the percent basis. All votes should be equal

[teddsman]

@DenaInWyo itll count less because in Wyoming your vote is 1/500,000 but then in the all of the US it would count 1/300,000,000.

[DenaInWyo]

@teddsman How on Earth could it count less than it already does? I live in an overwhelmingly red state. It's basically not even worth me going to the polls.

[teddsman]

@DenaInWyo if people just went with the popular vote than your vote would count less because it would represent all of the US instead of just Wyoming

[Jacoby515]

@dodgyhingst Your right many nations in Europe, no wonder why they are in a financial crisis even more catastrophic than the on in the U.S. Reason being because the U.S. Two-party system was able to end the paths that the radical policies endorse by minor parties because they couldn't get anywhere. The people can still vote for these minor parties but we choose not to because we haven't been fooled like the Europeans have. Now all of Europe is paying the ultimate price.

[dodgyhingst]

@Jacoby515 Hitler....scary ! ! ! ! Many nations have more than two political parties and they have never fallen to their own private version of Hitler.

[folladordeprostis]

neo cons don't want to change that ,they think we still in 1811 instead of 2011,no surprise the usa will end up like ussr,no empire last forever.................