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The election of the president and for vice president of the United States is an indirect election in which citizens of the United States who are registered to vote in one of the fifty U.S. states or in Washington, D.C., cast ballots not directly for those offices, but instead for members of the Electoral College.
In that election, Andrew Jackson lost in spite of having a plurality of both the popular vote and the number of electoral votes representing them. [209] Yet, as six states did not hold a popular election for their electoral votes, the full expression of the popular vote nationally cannot be known. [209] Some state legislatures simply chose ...
The first presidential election of the Fifth Republic which elected Charles de Gaulle was the only presidential election where the winner was determined via an electoral college. [10] The electoral college was replaced after the 1962 referendum, with direct elections by popular vote, using a two-round system since 1965.
For many years, voter turnout was reported as a percentage; the numerator being the total votes cast, or the votes cast for the highest office, and the denominator being the Voting Age Population (VAP), the Census Bureau's estimate of the number of persons 18 years old and older resident in the United States.
English: This volume contains an investigation of remotely piloted research vehicle (RPRV) and unmanned aircraft system (UAS) mishaps and will examine their causes, consequences, resultant corrective actions, and lessons learned.
Scott Poole and Frederick Schaefer will compete for the District 36 seat on the Marathon County Board in the April 2 election.
The primary organization backing Proposition 36, called Californians for Safer Communities, gave two payments of $500,000 each on Sept. 20 and Oct. 1 to the California Republican Party, state ...
Psephology (/ s ɪ ˈ f ɒ l ə dʒ i /; from Greek ψῆφος, psephos, 'pebble') is the study of elections and voting. [1] Psephology attempts to both forecast and explain election results.