What happens if a candidate concedes but in the end he has more votes?
918916
It has happened.  Even in the 2000 Presidential Election, Gore called to concede, then realized that he might not have lost after all.\n\nThe bottom line is that the person who gets the most votes is elected, and the fact that he has conceded doesn't change that.\n\nGood luck!!
888717
DEPENDS ON THE QUALITY OF THE VOTING MACHINES.\nGOD BLESS
819662
I agree with you completely.  Once the new representative is sworn in, they are your representative whether you voted for them or not.  Yesterday, some of my candidates won, some lost.  I did not vote for my governor, who it turns out will still be my governer, but she is my governor.  I am just going to hold her feet to the fire and make sure she represents me.
555448
Its a simple equation: You voted for a man who sells you his policies. You vote for him = you agree with his policies. He now has control over your future and if you dont like what his doing then you should'nt have been so guillable to vote for him in the first place. For those that did'nt vote for him, tough luck. Try harder next time.  Welcome to democracy.
797510
Candidate A wins several of the states with large populations and wins the popular vote in those states by large margins (say, around 60% each). Candidate B wins all of the smaller states and wins the popular vote in those state by smaller margins (say, around 55% each). So A has more popular votes but it is built up in only the largest states which don't have a fair share of the Electoral College vote. B has fewer popular votes nationwide but the votes are spread out among a great many states which have a disproportionally unfair share of the E.C. votes. So A has more popular votes nationwide but B has the greater number of Electoral College votes.\n\nLet's shrink down the country we're talking about to only a portion of the actual U.S. Suppose we make a country out of the 13 states which are in the Rocky Mountain/Pacific Rim region, and that country still elects its President by an Electoral College system. Now, let's say that California has about 10 million voters, but the other 12 states have an average of only 800,000 voters in them. That would mean that California, all by itself, would still have slightly more voters than all 12 other states combined. Now imagine that Smith wins California but Jones wins all of the other 12 states.\n\nCalifornia -- 6,000,000 votes for candidate Smith and 4,000,000 for Jones. All 55 Electoral College votes for Smith.\n\nAll 12 other states -- on average, each state gives about 440,000 votes for Jones and about 360,000 votes for Smith. That totals to 5.280,000 for Jones and 4,320,000 for Smith. Jones wins all of the Electoral College votes for those 12 states, which comes to 69.\n\nSo Smith had 10,320,000 popular votes across the 13 states and Jones had 9,280,000 popular votes. But Jones has 69 Electoral College votes while Smith had only 55.
730317
Yes. You can just vote for part of the ballot.
452552
I will vote according to who I like...whether he is in my party or not.  If I don't like either candidate, I do a write in.  I cannot in good conscience vote for someone that I do not trust to hold that office.  That is why I did a write-in the past two presidential elections.
807486
The senate could go into a tie.\n\nIt is possible neither party will win!
926407
by all means talk to an elections officer at your polling station, they are sworn to secretcy  and you don't want to lose your vote, do you,  good luck an happy voting!!
978551
The obvious answer is the candidate who gets the most votes.  I know someone will answer that by saying that didn't happen in the 2000 Presidential Election, but that election is settled by who gets the most Electoral College votes and not by a majority vote.  Regardless whom ever gets elected will find themselves subject to pressure from their party, the outside lobbyist ect to the point that by the time the next election comes they will find themselves to have sold their soles to the one who has the money and not to the electorate that voted them in to office.
747072
No.  If I vote for a Democrat in a Red state, my vote does not count.  The opposite is true for a Republican voting in a Blue state.  You vote simply does not count.  We have seen it happen where the candidate with the most votes does not win.  Does that make any sense?
936580
Not anymore. You should have called the Secretary of State's office weeks ago if you had not yet received the ballot. By law, no votes cast after the election night deadline may be counted.
248523
It refers to a situation in parliamentary systems where a party wins less than 50% of the vote, but more than half the seats in parliament. That would be something akin to winning the electoral college, but not winning the popular vote.
901739
Winning a major election
536031
If you vote to close the meeting.
437817
There is more power in the vote. It is the final answer to petition, however to bring an issue to vote sometimes you have to petition to do it.
858926
There will be problem in choosing the candidate because the voter will be selecting from many names.  Further, the counting machine or election people will have a hard time counting and tabulating the many votes for different positions.