does the texas governor election have to be won by a percentage of votes cast?
951873
it only takes a majority of votes. whoever gets the most votes, wins, regardless of the actual percentage.
190339
In some states, the state legislature has to vote to certify the elections.  In others, it is the Executive branch.
802516
It depends on the state, for instance in Texas(were I live) the governor has very little power, while in other states they have much more. most can introduce legislation at the state level and etc. Basically they are state level presidents with limited power and more checks on what they can and cannot do.
780127
About 4.3 million or so people cast a ballot in this election\nas for registered voters I am betting this is only like 32-42% of them.
936660
should be something in place whereas "X" amount of votes are discounted/removed from any running politician that in any way lies/is deceptive about their competitior.  would clean things up.
752313
Not just yet.  It passed in the State Senate, but needs to be approved by the House and Governor.
1051273
It should not be. Nor do I think voting should be a requirement to voice your opinion.\n\nA vote is saying that you affirmatively approve one candidate over another. If none of the people on the ballot are ones that I actually support, I wouldn't vote for them.\n\nHowever, because I am still stuck with whatever laws the majority-elected government chooses to enact,  I absolutely have the right to voice my opinion about those. Especially since I don't actually have the opportunity to vote for most of those laws directly.
829155
No-- Arizona has a stupid proposition on the ballot which would give unclaimed lottery money to random people who vote in each election.\n\nYou should vote becuase it is your civic duty, not for lottery money.  Giving rewards to vote would only encourage people to randomly vote for things and candidate.  It would not encourage people to take the effort to learn about the candidates or the propositions.\n\nYou have a right to vote-- but frankly, I want people with a clue to cast votes, not people who blindly pick stuff off a ballot.
730317
Yes. You can just vote for part of the ballot.
949854
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.
759218
Nope.  He got thumped only getting 34% of the vote.
888717
DEPENDS ON THE QUALITY OF THE VOTING MACHINES.\nGOD BLESS
824082
Well, they vary state to state a lot. One great site is Ballot Access News. They and the Committee on Free and Open Elections try to end the very restrictive ballot access laws.\n\nhttp://www.ballot-access.org/\n\nWhat it is based on is arguable. Technically often a percentage of voter registration or those who voted in general elections recently. Many times, though, they are arbitrary numbers and even the percentages above can often be arbitrary.
703709
In MN, they said that 56% (or 57%, can't remember exactly) of registered voters actually voted. And that is actually down just a little from the last midterm election. \n\nNation wide, I believe I heard it was 40% of registered voters.
349617
False. They can override a veto, but it takes a 2/3 majority vote.
542
Yes.  It is possible for the winner of an election to get as little as 39% of the vote, and carry the electoral college.  This happens when the winner wins by only a handful of votes in states he or she wins, and losing completely in all other states.\nThis is caused by the lack of proportional voting in states.  A states electoral votes, with exceptions of Maine and Nebraska, either go all to one candidate or the other.  If half the state votes one way, and half the other, the smaller half is effectively not counted.  With proportional voting, or district-level voting, this remains true, but it can only affect one vote per state, and is as likely to fall one way as the other.\nI hope this answered your question.
782890
Absolutely!\nEvery vote counts. \nEven if your candidate doesn't win, their opponent looks at how close the election results were, and some of them actually try to respond to their constituency if it was a close race. Plus there are usually other things to vote on, like propositions, and bond & tax issues that will affect your wallet.