As an European, I'm struck by depending on media outlets announcements. Here we have official government committee, which gathers official results from all districts, sums the results and proclaims winner. Does USA have official, federal bureau for election results?
Yes the USA has an official process for determining the president. The thing you're missing is that this election happens on January the 6th, when the electoral college casts their ballot.
What is happening right now is that 50 states are asking their constituents to tell them how the electoral college should vote. This is 100% a state issue. Hell technically a state could also say "hahhahah heck no" and ignore how their people voted and cast the electoral votes however they feel, but you can outright expect a war to break out if they did so.
So right now you really just have media outlets that are showing the way the states are almost certainly going to distribute their votes. This is also why some states have results and others don't. Each has their own rules on counting, and what is valid.
Yep to us Europeans the system very much looks like a hot mess... because it is.
Yep to us Europeans the system very much looks like a hot mess... because it is.
This is the United States of America. When European nations elect their prime ministers or what have you, the synonymous activity in the states is the election of a governor, which would look a lot more familiar. Whereas when the states get together to elect a President, that would be a lot more like having the individual nations in Europe elect the President of the European Commission or the Council. Well, the ones that are still part of the EU anyway. Those two seats are not directly elected by the popula
In democracies individual local authorities run a free and fair election process that has all the ballots taken to a place of counting where they are counted in full view of all interested parties, and a final count announced in 99% of constituencies by the next day.
Those final counts can be accumulated on a regional or national level to (e.g.) elect a regional representative to the EU or to decide to leave the EU. But it's a simple distributed system that doesn't involve 18 different forms of elec
When European nations elect their prime ministers or what have you
Prime ministers are pointless and irrelevant. They only show on the ballot for a small group whom they represent. In a representative democracy we elect local officials often those belonging to a specific party. The party and their platform runs the country, not the prime minister. The prime minister is chosen by the party from eligible elected ministers and is given the job of shaking babies, holding hands and speaking to the media. So yes, if you look at the Prime Minister in terms of how many other natio
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Media outlets? (Score:5, Insightful)
As an European, I'm struck by depending on media outlets announcements. Here we have official government committee, which gathers official results from all districts, sums the results and proclaims winner.
Does USA have official, federal bureau for election results?
Re:Media outlets? (Score:2)
Yes the USA has an official process for determining the president. The thing you're missing is that this election happens on January the 6th, when the electoral college casts their ballot.
What is happening right now is that 50 states are asking their constituents to tell them how the electoral college should vote. This is 100% a state issue. Hell technically a state could also say "hahhahah heck no" and ignore how their people voted and cast the electoral votes however they feel, but you can outright expect a war to break out if they did so.
So right now you really just have media outlets that are showing the way the states are almost certainly going to distribute their votes. This is also why some states have results and others don't. Each has their own rules on counting, and what is valid.
Yep to us Europeans the system very much looks like a hot mess ... because it is.
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Yep to us Europeans the system very much looks like a hot mess ... because it is.
This is the United States of America. When European nations elect their prime ministers or what have you, the synonymous activity in the states is the election of a governor, which would look a lot more familiar. Whereas when the states get together to elect a President, that would be a lot more like having the individual nations in Europe elect the President of the European Commission or the Council. Well, the ones that are still part of the EU anyway. Those two seats are not directly elected by the popula
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Bollocks.
In democracies individual local authorities run a free and fair election process that has all the ballots taken to a place of counting where they are counted in full view of all interested parties, and a final count announced in 99% of constituencies by the next day.
Those final counts can be accumulated on a regional or national level to (e.g.) elect a regional representative to the EU or to decide to leave the EU. But it's a simple distributed system that doesn't involve 18 different forms of elec
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When European nations elect their prime ministers or what have you
Prime ministers are pointless and irrelevant. They only show on the ballot for a small group whom they represent. In a representative democracy we elect local officials often those belonging to a specific party. The party and their platform runs the country, not the prime minister. The prime minister is chosen by the party from eligible elected ministers and is given the job of shaking babies, holding hands and speaking to the media. So yes, if you look at the Prime Minister in terms of how many other natio