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To: Berlin_Freeper
Unlike the United States, which has a presidential system of democracy and directly elects officials

Not quite. We directly elect Electors who in turn vote for a president and vice-president. In the occasional even there is no majority of accepted electoral votes, it goes to the House of Representatives, which has one vote per state for President.
5 posted on 07/12/2016 12:40:45 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."-R.Reagan)
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To: Dr. Sivana

I’ll bkmk for the next time someone harps to me about “unelected eu bureaucrats”.


8 posted on 07/12/2016 12:44:24 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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