Primaries and Caucuses
The primary elections and caucuses are controlled by state and local governments. A few states just hold primary elections, some just hold caucuses, and others utilize a mix of both. These primaries and caucuses are lurched in the middle of January and June before the government decision, with Iowa and New Hampshire generally holding the first presidential state primary and caucuses, individually.
Like the general election, presidential caucuses or primaries are circuitous races. The major political parties formally vote in favor of their presidential competitor at their individual choosing traditions, typically all held in the late spring before the government race. Contingent upon every state's law and state's political
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The presidential ballot is a vote for the electors of a candidate implying that the voter is not voting in favor of the hopeful, but rather supporting a slate of voters vowed to vote in favor of a particular Presidential and Vice Presidential candidate. (book)
Electoral College
Most state laws build up a winner takes all system, wherein the ticket that wins a majority of votes wins the greater part of that state's dispensed electoral votes, and in this way has their slate of electors decided to vote in the Electoral College. Maine and Nebraska don't utilize this strategy, selecting rather to give two constituent votes to the statewide champ and one electoral vote to the victor of each Congressional district.
Every state's triumphant slate of voters then meets at their individual state's capital on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December to cast their electoral votes on partitioned ballots for President and Vice President. Albeit Electoral College individuals can actually vote in favor of anybody under the U.S. Constitution, 24 states have laws to rebuff shifty balloters, the individuals who don't cast their electoral votes in favor of the individual whom they have vowed to