Re: [microsound] war

[Richard Zvonar <zvonar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 5:46 PM +0200 4/6/03, azerty/imachination rec. wrote:

>As you should know, i don't remember that the majority of americans clearly
>voted for bush, there was a sort of strange mess with elections that gave
>few protests, am i wrong ?

The electoral system in the US is not based purely on the popular 
vote, but uses a system called the Electoral College. Each state has 
a certain number of Electors who are chosen to represent the voters 
of that state. The number of Electors is equal to the number of the 
state's Representatives and Senators. It is customary for all of each 
state's Electors to cast their votes according to the popular 
majority vote in their state, so it is possible for a candidate to 
lose in the popular vote but to win the election.

In the 2000 election Bush had 327,966 fewer popular votes than Al 
Gore, but had 4 more electoral votes.

http://www.fec.gov/pages/ecmenu2.htm

Some people blame Gore's loss of the election to "spoiler" candidate 
Ralph Nader, whose Green Party voter resulted in the loss of both New 
Hampshire and Florida. A Gore win in these states would have given 
him the election, with 295 to Bush's 242 electoral votes.

http://www.fairvote.org/plurality/nader.htm
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