Ace wrote in
:

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 16:34:53 -0500, "D. Strang"
wrote:

No. They are equal. Everyone in the same state has the same 1 vote.
People from other states also have 1 vote, but their state may have
more electors. This is taught in most American high schools, and you
will probably learn it soon unless you drop out.

How is it, then, that the person who wins most votes isn't elected?
Surely there is at least on section of the community whose votes count
for less than another section of the community.

Two words.
Electoral College.
Simply put add the number of Senators and Representatives a state
sends to Washington. That is its number of electors.
How states determine who those electors vote for depends on the
state in question but assume for simplicity if you win the popular
vote in a state you get all that state's electoral votes.
You could win 49 states by one vote each, not get any votes, hell not
even be on the ballot in oh say California and thus loose the popular
vote by some 10s of millions of votes yet still have a landslide in
the electoral college ( 400+ to 57 IIRC )

BTW - I did not attend high school in either of the two American
continents.

OK.

IBM

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