ELECTORAL COLLEGE-TO BE OR NOT TO BE? Cindy Franklin Government 2301 Prof. Rasmussen April 19‚ 2012 The Electoral College is a process that began as part of the original design‚ of the U.S. Constitution and was established by the founding fathers as a compromise between the election of the president by Congress and election by popular vote. As we all know‚ Americans were given a serious reminder in 2000 that the president is not elected by nationwide popular vote‚ but by a majority of the
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The electoral college is a very intricate and lengthy system the United States has in place to designate the resulting president. This is a system our founding fathers came up with when developing the country and a system that has been in place for centuries. And although this is a system people know and are accustom to‚ there is much surrounding controversy. Many people feel this is an ineffective method of selecting the president‚ while others feel that it works just fine. The Electoral College
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of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors‚ the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President‚ and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President. Your state’s entitled allotment of electors equals the number of members
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ELECTORAL REFORMS: IN INDIA INTRODUCTION “The health of a democracy depends on the choice of representatives and leaders‚ which in turn is directly linked to the way political parties function and elections are conducted”. The government of India is quasi-judicial; theofficials are elected at the federal‚ state and local levels. The head of the Government‚ Prime Minister is indirectly elected by the people of the country‚ through the General Election where the leader of the party winning in majority
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The issue of electoral reform has become more important than ever in Canada in recent years as the general public has come to realize that our current first-past-the-post‚ winner-take-all system‚ formally known as single-member plurality (SMP) has produced majority governments of questionable legitimacy. Of the major democracies in the world‚ Canada‚ the United States‚ and the United Kingdom are the only countries that still have SMP systems in place. Interestingly enough‚ there has been enormous
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is because it allows for the possibility that one candidate would win the majority of the popular vote across the nation‚ and still be able to lose the election if another candidate wins the electoral vote. This has happened on more than one occasion‚ most recently in 2000 when George W. Bush won the electoral vote and became President despite the fact that his opponent‚ Al Gore‚ won the popular vote. The world was shocked when Bush was named winner of the U.S. presidential election‚ even after more
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pattern (e.g. ‘Just- in- time’) to avoid excess capacity. ’B’ items are important‚ but of course less important than ’A’ items and more important than ’C’ items. Therefore ’B’ items are intergroup items. ’C’ items are marginally important. Advantages and Disadvantages of ABC Analysis Inventory Activity Based Costing‚ or ABC‚ is a method of allocating overhead and direct expenses related to the most important activities of the company first. This process allows business owners and managers an opportunity
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ISLAMABAD: In a major step towards electoral reforms in Pakistan‚ the government will soon move a draft law in parliament to make Nadra’s Computerised National Identity Cards (CNIC) mandatory for voting in elections. Secretary Election Commission Ishtiaq Ahmad Khan told The News here on Friday that the bill was expected to be moved in the National Assembly during its ongoing session and when enacted would make the old NIC and other documents of identity invalid for voting. “The Computerised National
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Government- 4B December 28‚ 2013 Poll on Electoral College The Electoral College is a process that consists of 538 electors that which elect candidates for the office of President and Vice President of the United States. These electors are chosen by popular vote on a state-by-state basis. When voters cast their ballots for a presidential candidate‚ those votes actually count towards a group of electors who pledge to vote for a specific candidate when the Electoral College meets. The presidential and vice-presidential
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aThe parliamentary system is one of three most widely used democratic forms of government. It is mainly used by European countries and Commonwealth nations. The former subscribe to the West German model while the latter uses the Westminster model. It is a system whereby the Executive branch is supported either directly or indirectly by the legislative. The head of government‚ who leads day to day affairs of government‚ is separate with the head of state that has a ceremonious function. Some parliamentary
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