What is no presidential candidate has a majority of votes in an election?
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If you meant "if no presidential candidate . . " it's happened plenty of times before.\n\nIn 1992, Clinton won the election with a plurality of 43% of the votes or so, with Perot in the race as a third party candidate. (Bush the elder got 37% and Perot got 19%).\n\nThe same thing happened in 1996 when Clinton got only 49% of the vote and in 200 when Bush and Gore both got only 49% of the vote.\n\nIn fact, the last two times a candidate got a majority of the votes cast were 2005 and back to 1988 before that.
218219
Your question should be how many votes can an idiot get and still loose the election.  That answer will give you the number of fools who voted in the last election.
504578
If it is a Primary election, you can't vote on a candidate unless you are a member of that candidate's party. Being independant, you do not belong to any party and therefore you can't be involved in your party nominating a candidate. But you'll be able to vote in the regular election.
864102
There is no set number.  A list of nominees goes to the voters, and only those who receive a 75% vote are elected.
754345
Votes rarely go 100% down party lines. And if there's a tie, the Vice President gets the vote that breaks the tie.
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There was no presidential election in 2001. \n\nGore won the popular vote in the 2000 elections, Bush the electoral vote with some help from FLorida officials and Supreme Court justices. \n\nWhen will we have direct voting for presidents?
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Mark D has it right.\n\nThe only other point is that some states determine that the electoral college votes need to go to the person who gets the popular vote en total while others have it doled out in percentages.\nIn other words, assuming the candidates are running at 60% to 40% and there are 10 electoral votes available:\nin some states, the candidate with the 60% will get all 10 votes.\nin other states, the candidate with 60% of the vote will get 6 votes and the other will get 4 votes...\nstill in a few others, it is not based upon popular vote, and the electors get to give the votes where they would like to (with certain restrictions).\n\nSo, for most states, the popular vote DOES count, but mainly by state, not necessarily the complete number of all votes in the entire country.  That is what happened to Bush & Gore and also happened to Harry Truman (the early edition papers actually announced his opponent the winner...).\n\nThose people who say their votes don't count are using it as a scapegoat for their own laziness.  There are plenty of non presidential elections on the same ballot that do NOT have electoral colleges - Senators, representatives governors any state initiative all the way down to their city government.
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No election this year.
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Hopefully someone other than a Republican or a Democrat. This poor country needs true change and neither of those groups are going to give it to us. Too bad that most still believe that the vote makes a difference, they are all working for the same main agenda, money not the people. Both and most parties are controlled by big business so it really doesn't much matter.
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Don't confuse the vocal minority, with the silent majority. The vocal minority is loud, but that doesnt mean they can produce more votes in an election.
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Most important: they should not be corrupted.\n\nThat is the reason I rarely vote !
215534
As we learned in the 2000 election, our votes don't count.  There are only 9 votes in this country that count.
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Could be, some of the toss-up states (e.g. VA) are within a thousand votes.  Close enough to count the absentee ballots.
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Not even close - for a start, how can 2 parties represent the views of all the people in one of the largest countries in the world?  Especially when the head of state is not elected directly by the people, but by an Electoral College.  It seems absurd that a President can come to power who, when the actual votes of the people are counted, didn't win?  Surely those are the votes that count?  You have one of the most culturally diverse populations on the planet, and yet your Parliament, Government and Judiciary are predominantly white, middle class, wealthy and male.  That doesn't sound very democratic to me.
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Without question.  I never imagined in these modern times a popularly elected candidate would fail to win because of the electoral college.  The 2000 presidential election was a sham.  500,000 more voted for Gore than Bush, yet we have been stuck with this merciless demogogue for two terms.  Bill Clinton how you are missed!
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Hurts in that there is the opportunity that a president may be elected with less than the majority of the popular vote.
1078167
of course everyones vote matters. Unfortunately, about 50% or more of the registered voters won't bother to get off their lazy bums to cast their ballot.