Question

What are the main features of the U.S electoral process?

Answer 1

Please I need help on this question.

Answer 2

wow ! that's a question !
A main feature is that it is DEMOCRATIC.
Also, anyone who has the right resources (access to money and organisation) can run for President.
So, a peanut farmer (Carter) can get there as can a property salesman (President elect), as can a film star (Reagan). As long as they were born on US territorial soil. It doesn't matter where their partner was born, though.
The voting system is complex ... perhaps because of the size of the US, the time zones and the way the population is distributed. Some states - Florida eg - very densely populated, others, very sparse.
To accommodate this huge variation, the system is designed on what's called ELECTORAL COLLEGES. Florida has a big weighting, whilst a state with a lower number of people has less of a weighting.
During the run up to the actual election, it seems that the candidates are free to hurl as many insults and accusations as they like at each other and not get hauled up for "causing offence".
The 2016 election seems to be, shall we say, "different" ?

Answer 3

The number tally actually COUNTED in the election is the TOTAL number of electoral college votes.
Deserts tend to be empty, and cities such as NY tend to be full.

The candidate who gets the most votes in a state wins the MAJORITY of the electoral college votes in the state and wins the state, and with it ALL of the electoral college votes for that state.

I think that the state of FLORIDA had a large number of electoral college votes at stake because of its high population. So, winning F would mean a big number to add to the total tally of votes. I don't know what the state with the least number of voters is. Whatever state it is, it will presumably have the lowest number of electoral college votesn and thus give the smallest amount to the total tally.

Hard work ? Yep, I'd say so. But that's the way that the US is distributed in terms of its population.