An election is a process in which people vote to decide the leader of the country or to decide any issue. The United State is a representative democracy, in which the adult citizens of the country vote to elect the country’s leaders. These elected leaders make the governmental decisions. The leader serve in the office for a specific amount of time called a term of office. Elections are done to make a person, the leader of the country, who is eligible for this job. A person who can handle provincial disputes, regional disputes, can listen to both rich and poor. It is able to answer for what he is doing in country, able to make his country successful, he should be liberal and is able to make a democratic state where each person has equal rights and they have freedom to speak and can give ideas about how to run the country.
The United States has a federal government, with elected officials at the federal state and local levels. On a national level, the head of state, the president, is elected indirectly by the people, through an electoral college. In modern times, the electors virtually always vote with the popular vote of their state. All members of the federal legislature, the congress are directly elected. There are many elected offices at the state level. Each state has at least an elective governor and legislature. There are also elected offices at local level in countries and cities. It is estimated that across the whole country, over one million offices are filled in every electoral cycle.
Elections for President and Vice President of the United States are indirect elections in which voters cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College, that in turn directly elect the President and Vice President. They occur on Election Day, the Tuesday between November 2 and 8, coinciding with the general elections of various other federal, states and local races. The most recent presidential election occurred on November 4, 2008, with the next one scheduled for November 6, 2012.
The process is regulated by a combination of both federal and state laws. Each state is allocated a number of Electoral College electors equal to the number of its Senators and Representatives in the U.S. Congress. Additionally, Washington, D.C. is given a number of electors equal to the number held by the smallest state. U.S. territories are not represented in the Electoral College.
The modern nominating process of U.S. presidential elections currently consists of two major parts: a series of presidential primary elections and caucuses held in each state, and the presidential nominating conventions held by each political party. This process was never included in the United States Constitution, and thus evolved over time by the political parties to clear the field of candidates.
Under the constitution, the manner for choosing electors for the Electoral College is determined by each state’s legislature. Today, the states and the District of Columbia each conduct their own popular elections on Election Day to help determine their respective slate of electors. Thus, the presidential election is really an amalgamation of separate and simultaneous state elections instead of a single national election run by the federal government.