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ELEIÇÕES NOS EUA

Passos na eleição do Presidente dos EUA

By Duncan Mil

September 21, 2020 - Ao contrário da crença popular, os eleitores americanos não elegem diretamente o seu presidente. Quiando vão às urnas, os cidadãos voram para “eleitores” -- membros de um Colégio Eleitoral cujo único objetivo é escolher o presidente e o vice presidente dos Estados Unidos.

Since 2000, this has resulted in candidates twice winning the national popular vote but losing the White House in the Electoral College. In 2016, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by 65.8 million to Donald Trump’s 63.0 million -- a majority of 2.8 million ballots. However, the Electoral college handed the presidency to Trump with just 24 per cent of the 253.9 million voting-age population.

The Electoral College comprises 538 electors, representing 100 Senators, 435 House Representatives and three from the District of Columbia.

Because each state gets two electors for their two senators, the system gives an advantage to less populous rural states which tend to be Republican strongholds.

Wyoming, with a population of less than 600,000, gets three Electoral College votes – one per 200,000 people. California, the most populous state with almost 40 million, has 55 Electoral College votes – one per 727,000 people. So people in Wyoming have 3.6 times more say over the presidency than an individual in California.

In the 48 “winner-take-all” states, the candidate who wins the majority of individual votes gets all the electoral votes. So, for example, the voice of a Democrat in Wyoming is meaningless because the state is predominantly red and all of its electoral votes go to the Republican candidate.

Because of these imbalances, voter turnout in the last presidential election didn’t even hit the 51 per cent mark. A poll carried out in March 2020 by the Pew Research Center found a majority of U.S. adults (58 per cent) support selecting the president by the popular vote.

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PUBLISHED: 21/09/2020; STORY: Graphic News; PICTURES: Associated Press
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