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The monitoring may serve to disincentivize, prevent or minimize practices that undermine election quality, [1] [2] as well as election-related violence. [3] Election observation increasingly looks at the entire electoral process over a long period of time, rather than at election-day proceedings only.
Furthermore, a candidate can win the electoral vote without securing the greatest amount of the national popular vote, such as during the 1824, 1876, 1888, 2000 and 2016 elections. It would even be possible in theory to secure the necessary 270 electoral votes from only the twelve most populous states [a] and ignore the rest of the country.
USElections.com [47] tries to provide similar information but relies on volunteers in a way that is more like Wikipedia than Ballotpedia and Vote Smart. The website 270towin provides actual electoral college maps (both current and historic) but also the ability to use an interactive map in order to make election predictions.
This process is described in Article Two of the Constitution. [1] The number of electoral votes exercised by each state is equal to that state's congressional delegation which is the number of Senators (two) plus the number of Representatives for that state. Each state appoints electors using legal procedures determined by its legislature.
Vote counting is the process of counting votes in an election. It can be done manually or by machines. In the United States, the compilation of election returns and validation of the outcome that forms the basis of the official results is called canvassing. [1]
The process limits the possible outcomes to two options only. The process is not straightforward; the optimal ballot for a voter "requires strategic voting", i.e. it depends on their beliefs about other voters' ballots. According to a 2006 survey of electoral system experts, their preferred electoral systems were in order of preference: [48]
Election administration is the management of the logistics of elections, particularly large democratic elections. [1] Common challenges in election administration include long lines at polling places, ensuring equitable access to voting, designing ballots so that voters can understand them as well as possible, ensuring that voters are registered where applicable, counting votes, and correcting ...
After a presidential election, [2] [3] the ascertainment is submitted by the governor of each state (and by the mayor of the District of Columbia) to the Archivist of the United States [4] [5] [6] and others, [7] in accordance with 3 U.S.C. §§ 6–14 [8] [9] the Electoral Count Act, [10] [11] and the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022.