You are voting for electors for the actual presidential vote by the “electoral college.”
Check out the constitution.
Wish you could change these bloody things. Can’t believe I wrote that “the heading is headed.”
Senility gallops on. Anybody else want a ride?
Although ballots list the names of the presidential and vice presidential candidates (who run on a ticket), voters actually choose electors when they vote for president and vice president. These presidential electors in turn cast electoral votes for those two offices.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_College_(United_States)
That is correct.
Citizens vote for electors who then cast votes for the president.
Such as it ever was.
Don’t worry about it. If you voted by mail, some postal worker will probably just shred you ballot anyways (per several threads here, although Snopes — LOL like I trust them — say it’s fake).
And if you vote in person, well, then there is Diebold and Soros...
I would severely limit these ballots strictly to people who must leave town or are infirm.
srsly?
No, you are actually voting for the “electors” who are supposedly pledged to go to the Electoral College meeting to vote for either Trump or Hillary - that’s where the skullduggery might show itself - sometimes “pledged” electors threaten to change their minds and vote for someone else or for no one when the time comes......
You do realize, don’t you, that you have NO constitutional right to participate in the choice of who the president will be?
“Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.”
It’s solely up to your state legislature whether you participate in the process at all.
I get an early ballot, it allows me take my time in figuring out some of the other categories like water, health care and school board voting that I don’t tend to know who is even running.
I fill out my ballot and bring it to my polling place where you don’t have to wait in line if you are just handing in your sealed ballot. When I vote in person they tend to have you drop your filled out ballot in a box then they feed them thru a machine anyway, so who knows which are counted accurate or not?
The green return envelope doesn’t appear see thru even with brightest light i have available and I am folding my ballot opposite way so the presidential names will be inside instead of facing out.
True story: earlier this week a local radio personality in my area stated on his live program that the Founding Fathers set up the electoral college because most voters aren’t intelligent enough to choose the President, so the electors are the smarter guys who do that secretly, because they’re the ones who know what’s what.
Some lady called in and chewed him out.
She said the electoral college is about disparities in population concentrations, not about voters’ low intelligence. She said nothing can fix that, and told him he was a good example. It was hilarious.
We do not vote directly for President.
Each state chooses electors who will actually elect the President.
There is no constitutional requirement for popular election.
A state legislature could abolish the popular election method and appoint the electors itself.
We have an indirect presidential election.