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Election Recap
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Election Recap
The election is over. Take a look at the AP News Election center: https://apnews.com/live/trump-harris-election-updates-11-5-2024
Let’s discuss how elections work:
- What is the electoral college?
- How do people vote and how are those votes counted?
- How do news companies report the winner before all the votes are counted?
- What do the races for House, Senate, and Governor mean?
Write thoughts and answers to questions in reply to this post.
apnews.com
Live election updates: Donald Trump wins US presidency
Donald Trump has 267 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House and is leading in key races left to be called, including Michigan and Wisconsin.
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The electoral college is the system we use to elect our presidents. It is made up of 538 votes comprised of 100 senate votes and 438 house votes. We use a first past the pole voting system that only requires each candidate to have more than fifty percent of the vote. This also applies to the electoral college but we’ll to that in a second. Each state is guaranteed three votes with the rest of the votes being apportioned according to population. In most states if you get a majority of the votes you get all of the electoral votes. People usually vote in polling booths or use mail in votes.
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