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The electoral commissioner declared, with the consent of the parties, to run an unprecedented second re-run.
For the last 30 years, political scientists have observed that there is a constant decline in electoral turnout, and the people who are least interested to vote are the people whom you expect are going to gain most out of voting.
I led an initiative by the Libyan Women's Platform for Peace to lobby for a more inclusive electoral law, a law that would give every citizen, no matter what your background, the right to vote and run, and most importantly to stipulate on political parties the alternation of male and female candidates vertically and horizontally in their lists, creating the zipper list.
And if you look at the red and blue electoral map of the United States, and if I were to tell you, "Oh, the blue is what designates all of the major nonprofit cultural institutions," I'd be telling you the truth.
But despite our electoral mandate, the markets mistrusted us.
Sooner or later, electoral democracy will be the only political system for all countries and all peoples, with a free market to make them all rich.
In contrast, most electoral democracies around the world are suffering from dismal performance.
With a few exceptions, the vast number of developing countries that have adopted electoral regimes are still suffering from poverty and civil strife.
For the hundred or so countries that are ranked below China, more than half of them are electoral democracies.
China's political model will never supplant electoral democracy, because unlike the latter, it doesn't pretend to be universal.
And he took me to a campaign headquarters — the governor of Illinois was running for the presidency — and introduced me to American electoral politics.
If the protests that swept Brazil in June 2013 have taught us anything, it's that every time we try to exercise our power outside of an electoral context, we are beaten up, humiliated or arrested.
For example, the 2006 electoral victory of the Palestinian Hamas cannot be understood without acknowledging the group's social work.
The government of Sweden, under its current feminist government, has committed to close both the employment and the pay gap for all of its citizens within the current electoral term.
Essentially, the Democratic candidate and Republican candidate are each trying to add up the electors in every state so that they surpass 270 electoral votes, or just over half the 538 votes, and win the presidency.
So how do states even get electoral votes?
The census is conducted every 10 years, so every time the census happens, states might gain or lose a few electoral votes.
Let's say you're a voter in California, a state with 55 electoral votes.
If your candidate wins in California, they get all 55 of the state's electoral votes.
If you currently add up the electoral votes of those three states, you would have 96 electoral votes.
Connecticut and West Virginia, they would only gain 31 electoral votes total from those eight states.
On a rare occasion, like in the year 2000, someone can win the popular vote but fail to gain 270 electoral votes.
This means that the winner may have won and collected their electoral votes by small margins, winning just enough states with just enough electoral votes, but the losing candidate may have captured large voter margins in the remaining states.
Therefore, the losing candidate may have gained more than 50% of the ballots cast by voters, but failed to gain 270 of the electoral votes.
Some critics of the electoral college argue the system gives an unfair advantage to states with large numbers of electoral votes.
However, others argue that the electoral college protects small states such as Rhode Island, Vermont and New Hampshire, and even geographically large states with small populations like Alaska, Wyoming and the Dakotas.
That's because a candidate can't completely ignore small states, because in a close election, every electoral vote counts.
In the past four election cycles, Ohio and Florida have been swing states, twice providing electoral votes for a Democratic candidate, and twice providing electoral votes for a Republican candidate.
And do not forget, when you are watching the electoral returns on election night every four years and the big map of the United States is on the screen, know that the magic number is 270 and start adding.
What we need today is an electoral culture that is about being together together, in person, in loud and passionate ways, so that instead of being "eat your vegetables" or "do you duty," voting can feel more like "join the club" or, better yet, "join the party."
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