The Presidential Election System

The American presidential election system can be complicated. It involves several steps in order to just pick a presidential candidate. The process is complex and long, usually taking over a year to complete, and it leads up to the presidential election in November, which happens every four years. The process begins with candidates announcing their run for office, proceeds to one of them being nominated for the party, and ends with one of the parties winning the election. Several political figures from each party will announce themselves in the year before the election, trying to win over their party for a chance at the United States presidency. These candidates will tour the country to try to gain supporters for the presidential primaries, the election of delegates for the party’s national convention to vote for the presidential candidate. These candidates must also qualify under certain requirements set by federal law. The president “must be a natural-born citizen,

The party candidates will debate each other over popular issues and controversies on national public television to try to win supporters. Their supporter count is calculated by a tracking poll leading up to the general election. On the day of the election, usually the first Tuesday of November, hundreds of thousands of eligible and registered voters cast their choices, sometimes in a split ticket, or a ballot in which they vote for candidates of multiple parties, though it has become less popular over the past couple of decades to do so. After the general public’s votes have been cast, the electoral college will cast their official vote for who becomes the president and vice president of the United States. Their votes are usually based on popular vote, but that does not always happen. Once the voting has ended, the winners are announced, and at the end of January of the next year, they are inaugurated into